Michael Bloomberg’s campaign manager conceded President Trump was on the precipice of reelection, complimenting his team’s 2020 strategy.
Kevin Sheekey, who steered the billionaire media mogul and philanthropist to victory in his three New York City mayoral races, praised his Trump campaign counterpart, Brad Parscale, during an interview with Fox News.
“Brad is not running a national campaign. Brad is running a campaign in six states, and he’s doing that exceptionally well. And right now, if the election was held, I think President Trump probably is reelected. And that’s one of the reasons Mike Bloomberg got into this campaign,” Sheekey said late Monday, referring to Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Sheekey slammed the other Democratic 2020 presidential candidates for focusing on the four early voting states. Bloomberg, who announced his White House bid last November, is skipping the opening contests, instead targeting the 14 Super Tuesday states with primaries on Mar. 3.
Sheekey, the former Bloomberg L.P. executive, clarified reports Bloomberg committed to spending $2 billion to defeat Trump in the fall, regardless of who becomes the party’s nominee. He also responded to the New York Times’s editorial board opinion that his boss had spent $217 million to date on advertising in order “to circumvent the hard, uncomfortable work of actual campaigning,” calling its categorization “ridiculous.”
“Listen, I don’t think Mike has said $2 billion. Mike hasn’t even said $1 billion, which some people have — have quoted him on,” he said. “The truth is, he has said, ‘I want to run a campaign to get my message out, to make a difference in this country, and I’ll spend whatever it takes.'”
