Hillary Clinton has swatted down the notion of serving as Michael Bloomberg’s running mate in the 2020 presidential race.
“Oh no,” the former first lady and 2016 runner-up said with a laugh when asked during an El Vocero de Puerto Rico interview Tuesday whether she’d team up with Bloomberg for another run for the White House.
“I’m just waiting and watching as this plays out,” continued Clinton, speaking at an event in Puerto Rico for her family’s Clinton Global Initiative philanthropy group. “I will support whoever the nominee is.”
Bloomberg campaign sources told the Drudge Report last week that the hard-charging billionaire candidate was considering tapping Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.
Bloomberg, 78, served as mayor of New York from 2002 through 2013, overlapping with nearly all of Clinton’s run as an Empire State senator from 2001 to 2009.
Clinton, who lost a bitter presidential race to Donald Trump in 2016, had already publicly toyed with the idea of catching on as a 2020 candidate’s running mate — or making another attempt of her own.