Potential 2020 presidential contender Michael Bloomberg claims he warned House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that he will be as critical of House Democrats should they win power in November as he has been of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans.
“I said to Nancy Pelosi the other day when I was in San Francisco, if the Democrats get control of the House, I would expect her and the Democrats to do what I’m claiming Republicans should be doing,” Bloomberg said Sunday during an interview with CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” of the need for more bipartisanship collaboration on Capitol Hill.
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“And I will hold their feet to the fire in the same ways,” Bloomberg continued. “Every time, the ‘out’ party always says the other party’s not willing to compromise, but when they become the majority they do exactly the same thing.”
Bloomberg — a billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and former New York City mayor — said he would wait until after the 2018 midterm elections to decide whether to launch a bid for the White House, and did not say if he would do so an independent or as a Democrat.
“You’ve got to take these things one at a time, everybody’s focused now on the midterms, at least I think they are and should be,” he said. “And then afterwards we’ll — there’s lots of possibilities, lots of things you can do in the world, and lots of ways to make a difference.”
“It is a very heady thing when people yell, ‘run, run, run,'” Bloomberg added. “Anybody that thinks it isn’t should see a shrink.”
