• Usa, media: Mike Bloomberg would like Hillary Clinton as deputy

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February 19, 2020 Michael Bloomberg will sell his media company if he wins the presidential election. Galia Slayen, spokesman for his campaign, said so, reports the Wall Street Journal. Bloomberg holds about 90% of the data and media company that bears his surname. Founded in 1981, it serves 325 thousand customers and in 2019 it generated 10.5 billion in revenues (+ 5.7% compared to the previous year). The tycoon of the economic-financial information had initially proposed the hypothesis of a blind trust.

A change of strategy that comes only a few from the TV debate between dem presidential candidates in Las Vegas, in which the billionaire and former New York mayor participates for the first time. According to the ABC News-Washington Post poll, Bloomberg is in third place with 16% of the votes, while other polls in recent days have given it in second place with 19%. Senator Bernie Sanders is firmly in the lead nationally.

Enemies Friends
With an estimated fortune of around 62 billion dollars, Bloomberg is, according to the Forbes ranking of 2019, the ninth richest man in the world and the sixth in America. Described as always eager to arouse admiration, success in business is not enough and almost 20 years ago the first descent into politics arrived. To run for mayor of New York, Bloomberg leaves the Democratic Party and becomes a republican, thus guaranteeing the support of Rudolph Giuliani, then former prosecutor and mayor of the Big Apple, now controversial protagonist as a personal lawyer of Donald Trump in the affair that led the American president to the impeachment request.

In recent months, the New York billionaire had attacked Donald Trump for never having truly left control of his companies, which were formally passed on to his children. But now, on the occasion of the TV debate scheduled in Las Vegas, Bloomberg will be the foreseeable target of the attacks of his challengers, who have accused him several times of "wanting to buy the elections with his wealth".

Social mercenaries
Michael Bloomberg prepares his official entry into the US Democratic primary with an army of users on social networks, paid to publish messages in his support and invite all the people in the contacts to vote for him. It is a new electoral tactic, made possible by a practically unlimited availability of funds.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg is paying hundreds of people in California - one of the states to vote on the Super Tuesday on March 3 that the former New York mayor staked everything on, snubbing the four states to vote in February - for a branched advertising campaign on social networks. In the vote on March 3, about a third of the delegates who will elect the Democratic candidate for the presidential election during the national convention will be assigned.

For some days now, a photo has been taking place on social media, also tweeted by Bernie Sanders, showing a compliant Bloomberg with Trump on a golf course. On TV, however, a clip appeared where the former mayor declares: "I am a friend of Donald Trump, he is an icon of New York". In another video out there, Bloomberg tells of a conversation with Trump a month after the 2016 presidential election.

Trump's attack
Meanwhile Donald Trump returns to attack Michael Bloomberg hard on Twitter, a few hours after the first TV challenge. The US president calls Bloomberg News "corrupt" and the billionaire candidate "a pathetic speaker", accusing him of "violating the laws on the financing of electoral campaigns at the highest and most wicked level, distributing" bribes "everywhere".