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$Iter more than a decade oi political experience as a three term mayor oi New <ork 0ichael Bloomberg is a known quantity. He also has tens oi billions oi dollars to play with his estimated net worth oi .8 billion could buy Donald Trump times over.

<es he’s shiited parties three times Irom 5epublican to independent to Democrat but he checks OII important liberal boxes. Bloomberg has long Iought Ior stricter gun laws and immigration reiorm and he has dedicated time and money to tackling climate change. But there are conservative tendencies that could hurt him with progressives like his support oi ţstop and Iriskť policing and criticism oi Obamacare.

Still even ii he does make it past the primaries it’s hard to imagine 5ust Belt $merica embracing a New <orker who has Iought to ban large sodas smoking and trans Iat. 0ore troubling is the Trump administration’s embrace oi Bloomberg. &orey /ewandowski has said in recent months that the billionaire is the best Democratic candidate out there and Trump has indicated that he would like him to run. Let’s see how long that lasts. —Nicole Goodkind