Michael Bloomberg: Trump won because he ‘had us saying Make America Great Again’

“Hilary never got a real message out,” said Bloomberg, who considered running for president as an independent, in an interview Tuesday night with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “It was don’t vote for that guy and the gender issue. Whereas Donald had us saying ‘Make America Great Again,'” said Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday night with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I don’t know what again means. But America — that’s patriotic. And great, that’s a good word. I thought, it’s not quite that simple, but we do live in a world of 140 characters, and slogans matter.”

Bloomberg, who recently said Trump has a 55 percent chance of being re-elected, explained further that Trump’s “advantage” in 2020 would be the fact that he would be running as the incumbent. He also criticized the Democratic Party for being “torn apart by the Left.”

“The incumbent always has an advantage,” Bloomberg said. “If it turns out he is OK, some of the half who voted against him that thought he’d be a disaster probably wouldn’t think that anymore, so that’s an advantage. And the Democratic Party is gonna be torn apart by the Left and centralists. The Republican Party is also being torn apart by the centralists and the hard right, but they rented a candidate, the candidate has rented a party and they probably will without much of a fuss get behind Donald Trump.”

The former New York mayor shared some advice for Trump, advising that the president stop tweeting and reacting to developments in the Russia investigations.

“I don’t whether there is a there there, but you need a competent independent investigation that will either find something wrong or remove the cloud,” Bloomberg said. “It is very difficult to govern when there is a cloud around you. Having said that, the president just has to get it out of his mind, stop tweeting and focusing on running the government and let the investigation go on because without that, he will always have this problem.”