Michael Bloomberg said that Joe Biden does not have managerial experience needed to be an effective president and hinted Biden’s wife might have more relevant education than her husband to confront education issues.
“I don’t think that any of them have the experience” to get priorities done, Bloomberg said of the other 14 candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in an interview that aired Wednesday.
When pressed on whether he thinks Biden, the former vice president, has sufficient experience, Bloomberg held his ground.
“He’s never been a manager of an organization. He’s never run a school system,” Bloomberg said.
Biden held public office for nearly half a century. He was elected to the New Castle City Council in 1970, was a senator for 36 years and vice president for eight years.
Bloomberg, who founded and built multibillion-dollar financial services and data company Bloomberg L.P., was mayor of New York for 12 years.
“His wife, actually, is an educator and has good experience there,” Bloomberg added, referring to Jill Biden, who has nearly 40 years of teaching experience and still teaches at a community college in Northern Virginia. Joe Biden said in July that he would not appoint his wife to be secretary of education should he win the 2020 election.
“But no, I don’t think any of them — the presidency shouldn’t be a training job. You get in there, you got to hit the ground running,” Bloomberg said.
Though he believes his competitors are not experienced enough, Bloomberg said it is “probably true” that any of them would do a better job in the White House than President Trump.
Doing better than Trump is “not the standard,” Bloomberg said. “We need somebody that can make — give us results, improve our school systems.”
