'I'm doing exactly the same thing they're doing, except that I am using my own money,” Bloomberg says of his 2020 rivals. “They're using somebody else’s money, and those other people expect something from them'
into the race demonstrates “the arrogance of billionaires,” and that his levels of campaign spending made him complicit in “undermining” American democracy., Warren said she did not believe elections “ought to be for sale,” asserting that Democrats should not “say that the only way you’re going to get elected, the only way you’re going to be our nominee, is either if you are a billionaire or if you’re sucking up to billionaires.
Bloomberg pushed back against those attacks Friday, citing his working-class background, challenges in the private sector, and history of. “I think I could do a lot of good for the country if I could become president, and so using some of those monies to fund the campaign is fine,” he said. “I worked my way through college, and now I worked for 15 years, I got fired, I started a company, the company turned out to be phenomenally successful ... and I give 100 percent of the money away. What's wrong with all of that?” he later added. “And then I turn and they're criticizing me for it? I don't know — ask them what they're doing.
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