The former New York City mayor didn’t endorse Obama in 2008, and was sharply critical of him in 2012. But that hasn’t stopped him from featuring the 44th president prominently in his ads.
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While Obama hasn’t endorsed a candidate in the Democratic race, being featured in Bloomberg’s onslaught of ads has led some to believe he has thrown his support behind the billionaire former Republican who endorsed George W. Bush in 2004. “It’s jarring to see all these Bloomberg ads that suggest Obama has endorsed him, especially considering how … perfunctory his endorsement of Obama was back in 2012,” wrote Tommy Vietor, a former Obama spokesman.
Story continues“Twenty-twelve Bloomberg basically attacked Obama in that column for supporting all of the policies that 2020 Bloomberg now supports,” noted Dan Pfieffer, who also advised Obama. “What a world!”“I would argue that today we are more segregated, in America certainly, than we were, in terms of race, than we were a dozen years ago, and yet we’re just finishing up eight years with our first black president,” Bloomberg said at an event at Oxford University.
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