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Anonymous ID: a7164b March 3, 2020, 4:34 p.m. No.8311682   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1988 >>2171 >>2280

NEW: Mike Bloomberg's campaign manager says Bloomberg is "absolutely not" dropping out of the presidential race — but said the campaign would "make an assessment" after Super Tuesday.

 

Bloomberg Campaign Manager Kevin Sheekey shot down speculation that his candidate will exit the race today, but contradicted Mike Bloomberg’s comments earlier today that he was willing to wage a convention fight for the nomination.

 

“Absolutely not,” Sheekey told reporters about reports that Bloomberg was being advised to exit the race tonight. He said the campaign would assess where it stands after Super Tuesday. “I think you make an assessment in any campaign like this after every time that there’s a vote. We have not had a vote yet so we have not had to assess.”

 

Sheekey directly contradicted Bloomberg’s statement in Miami today that his only path to the nomination was a contested convention—a fight he was willing to wage. “I don’t happen to think Democrats will have a contested convention,” Sheekey said, “I heard him, and that may be true, it may not.”

 

He added: “As of right now we’re committed to stay in [until the convention] but we’ll see what happens today.”

Sheekey notably praised former Vice President Joe Biden – noting he donated to his campaign before Bloomberg entered the race – and said one of the two candidates will be the nominee. “I know the vice president personally, I find him to be one of the most decent public servants I’ve ever met,” he said, “I expect one of them to be the nominee and I expect the other to be supporting that person.”

 

Sheekey also rejected the characterization of Bloomberg as a spoiler against Biden on the ballot who threatened to siphon votes from Biden and allow Bernie Sanders to walk away with more delegates. “Look, I think Mike Bloomberg is either the candidate for the party, or the single most important person helping that candidate defeat Donald Trump,” he said, “To me that’s the opposite of a spoiler.”

 

Sheekey stressed Bloomberg’s commitment to continuing to spend resources in 2020 to defeat Trump, even if Sanders wins the nomination. “They agree on something that’s really important, which is this president has to be removed from office.”

 

He added: “We will find out how well [Bloomberg] does tonight. And we’ll find out whether Mike Bloomberg is on his way to becoming the candidate, or we will find out that Mike Bloomberg is going to be the most important person to whomever that candidate will be.”

 

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