Michael Bloomberg says Joe Biden is unqualified to be president
Michael Bloomberg dumped on Democratic rival Joe Biden, saying the former vice president is not qualified to be president because he’s never run anything.
“He’s never been a manager of an organization. He’s never run a school system,” Bloomberg said during an MSNBC interview, excerpts of which were released Wednesday night.
The former three-term New York City mayor and billionaire media mogul thought no better of the rest of the Democratic competitors running for president.
“But no, I don’t think any of them — you know, the presidency shouldn’t be a training job,” he said.
“You get in there; you’ve got to hit the ground running. We cannot wait, after what’s happened to our country and all the things that you described, of people not being comfortable, not being optimistic about the future.”
Still, Bloomberg said he thinks President Trump is so reckless that he would back any another Democratic candidate as the nominee — including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren — in the general election.
It’s no secret that Bloomberg decided to make a late entry into the Democratic primary in part because he worried that Warren or Bernie Sanders, whom he considers as anti-corporate left wingers, would win the Democratic nomination.
“I can only tell you, if I were faced with Elizabeth Warren or Donald Trump, I would vote for Elizabeth Warren, even though I don’t agree with her on a lot of things,” Bloomberg said.
“She is honest and smart and hardworking.”