• Michael Bloomberg dissolves the reservation: "I am applying to the White House"

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November 24, 2019 "A middle-class kid who has been good". This is how Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest men on the planet, is presented in the one-minute video that makes his descent into the field as a Democrat for the US presidential race. And his election campaign, for which he has already spent 30 million dollars on commercials, will be self-financed, because he "cannot be bought", they assure from his entourage.

Michael Bloomberg had already flirted with the presidency in 2016, as an independent. Last year he joined the Asinello party to test the ground at the primary dem but in March he gave up. "I think I would have beaten Donald Trump to the general election but I recognize the difficulty of winning the Democratic nomination in such a crowded camp," explained the 77-year-old white media mogul, moderate conservative, close to Wall Street and joined a party from the base increasingly liberal, young and open to diversity. He thought about it because he believes that there is no dem in the field to outperform Trump at the polls in November 2020.

Bloomberg has made his fortune with the company that bears his name, an information and financial data empire used all over the world by bankers, analysts and stock trading operators. After his entrepreneurial success he threw himself into politics. He ran for mayor of New York in 2001, running as a Republican in a notoriously democratic city. He was not only elected but also re-elected for two more times as head of the city, until 2013. During his second term, he left the Republican party and became independent.

With assets estimated at $ 54.4 billion, it ranks eighth in the Forbes billionaire ranking. Born in Boston in 1942 with finance in DNA: he is the son of an accountant. He graduated from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University and, in 1966, earned an MBA at Harvard. He joined Wall Street with Salomon Brothers, becoming a partner in 1972. In 1968 he founded Bloomberg Lp, of which he controls 85%.

Conservative on the economic front, he supports liberal demands on social and environmental issues. He launched Beyond Carbon, the largest organization mobilized against climate change, in stark contrast to Trump. For his philanthropic activity, he won third place in the ranking developed by Forbes and Shook Research on the top 50 donors in America.