

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and current billionaire who recently threw his hat into the 2020 Democratic primary, feels very attacked right now. His competitors are none too pleased with his plan to spend up to $1 billion of his own money on his campaign, which kicked off with a $30 million TV ad buy and millions more in online ads if you include the $100 million spent on anti-Donald Trump online ads just before he announced his candidacy. This self-funded operation has caused Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to accuse him of buying the election. Meanwhile, Cory Booker is thinking about the next debate: Neither Booker nor any other non-white candidate still standing (Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard) has qualified, but billionaire Tom Steyer has, and time will tell if Bloomberg makes the cut.
In an interview with Bloomberg, CBS’s Gayle King quoted Booker as saying that soon there will be “more billionaires in the race than black people.” King asked Bloomberg if that’s a problem for him. And Bloomberg gave just the kind of response one would expect from someone who once wrote an op-ed defending New York City’s racist stop-and-frisk policy: