Hillary for VP is ‘hypothesis’? Bloomberg marketing campaign brushes apart, however stops wanting denying, Clinton ‘working mate’ declare

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A spokesman for Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has dismissed a report he’s contemplating taking over Hillary Clinton as a working mate with out denying the rumor, and response on Twitter was unstoppable.

Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report claimed on Saturday that Bloomberg’s marketing campaign considers the thought of a Mike/Hillary ticket a “formidable power.” Citing sources “near” the marketing campaign, Drudge stated that Bloomberg would go so far as altering his official residence from New York to certainly one of his properties in Colorado or Florida, “because the electoral faculty makes it arduous for a POTUS and VPOTUS from the identical state.”

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Nevertheless, Clinton has spent a lot of the final three years disputing the outcomes of the 2016 election, blaming Russia, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, sexism, and extra for her loss to Donald Trump. As such, rumors of her deliberate entry into the 2020 race have repeatedly surfaced, solely to be shot down by her communications crew.

Bloomberg’s marketing campaign downplayed the newest report, with Bloomberg communication director Jason Schechter apparently calling it “hypothesis” in a press release.

We’re centered on the first and the controversy, not VP hypothesis.

Taking Clinton on board wouldn’t be fully out of the blue for Bloomberg although. A former Republican, Bloomberg endorsed Clinton for president in 2016, and in keeping with Donald Trump, was supplied a place in Clinton’s administration in return. Emails launched by WikiLeaks in 2016 appeared to substantiate this, with Bloomberg and Clinton aides brainstorming an array of positions for the previous mayor, from ambassador to China, to Secretary of State.

No matter their historical past, Clinton’s crew doubtless aren’t receptive to the thought, former aide Zerlina Maxwell advised MSNBC. Maxwell stated she was “extremely skeptical” of the report, and known as Bloomberg a “deeply flawed” candidate and a “faulty” product, whose place within the crowd of Democratic hopefuls has been bolstered by his multi-million greenback promoting spend.

As commentators groaned on the considered a Clinton/Trump rematch by proxy, the appropriate used the report back to drum up assist. “Each Bloomberg and Clinton will confiscate our weapons,” the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation (NRA) declared. “There has by no means been a extra important time to face and combat.”

With Bloomberg already having pumped some $ 300 million into promoting since asserting his candidacy in November, some commentators noticed the report as one more of the wily billionaire’s publicity stunts. “It labored like a allure,” conservative pundit Mark Cube wrote, “he is a sly satan.”

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