'Sure, I would have no trouble voting for Mike Bloomberg,” Warren Buffett said today. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"I'm very much in sympathy with the fact that Senator Sanders believes that a lot of people are getting left behind and through no fault of their own," Buffett told Quick. "And there's all kinds of aspects of capitalism that need, in some ways, to be regulated. But I don't believe in giving up the capitalist system."
That is why if given a choice today, he would choose Bloomberg over Sanders, but he still is "going to wait and see who gets the nomination." "I don't think I want to get into handicapping the race, but I would say this in terms of Sanders: I actually agree with him in terms of certain things he would like to accomplish," Buffett said, including the idea that something needs to be done for the "people who get left behind" by the system.
As for Bloomberg, when Quick asked Buffett if he is interested in buying the candidate's company, Bloomberg LP, if Bloomberg becomes president, Buffett said "no." A campaign spokesperson for Bloomberg did not immediately respond to CNBC Make It's request for comment regarding Buffett's comments.
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