Hollywood star Michael Douglas endorsed 2020 Democrat and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for president.
Douglas, 75, announced his endorsement for the billionaire in a video released Tuesday morning.
“I feel so blessed that in this particularly difficult time that we have one of the greatest candidates in the history of our elections,” Douglas told People magazine, adding that he “hasn’t been this excited” about a presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy.
The actor said he saw the addition of Bloomberg, 77, to the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as a “rare opportunity to coalesce and bring us back together, get rid of all this horrid, negative scare tactics that are going on, and the fact that he’s succeeded to the degree that he has is phenomenal.”
At the conclusion of his endorsement, Douglas, who starred in films such as The American President, Fatal Attraction, and Ant-Man, called Bloomberg “a president America needs.”
On Monday, Bloomberg said he supported removing President Trump from office under the impeachment charges presented by House Democrats. However, he acknowledged impeachment was divisive and asserted, “There’s just so much evidence that [Trump] acted inappropriately.”
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