RNC Chair: ‘It Would Be Blessing’ If Bloomberg Ran For White House

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is seen at the RNC winter meeting in Washington. Preibus acknowledges the GOP is “a tale of two parties,” in an inter... FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is seen at the RNC winter meeting in Washington. Preibus acknowledges the GOP is “a tale of two parties,” in an interview with the Associated Press. “We’ve got a midterm party that doesn’t lose, and a presidential party that’s having a hard time winning,” he said. But he declined to blame the split on policy, be it immigration or budget gridlock that House Republicans have helped bring about. Instead, he said the party has largely conceded minority and younger voters by not engaging them directly in their communities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) MORE LESS

Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus had a message for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he eyes an independent run for the White House: bring it on. It will help the GOP.

Priebus said that “I think it would be a blessing, but he’s not going to do it.”

Bloomberg had said that if the presidential race comes down to Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) or Donald Trump, he may run.

Priebus said that if Bloomberg jumped into the race that New York would be “in play. Pennsylvania will be in play, Connecticut might be in play.”

“I think that he would actually help the Republicans if he was on the ballot,” Prieubs said.

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  1. Bloomberg isn’t that popular in New York. He was before he manipulated the rules to get a third term, but he isn’t today. I’m not convinced he would help the Republicans, certainly not against Hillary. I think he would pull far more Romney voters from whichever loon the Republicants nominate than he would pull Obama voters from Hillary. He knows that and won’t run assuming she gets the nod. in the (IMO unlikely) event Bernie is the nominee, it’s a bit harder to say.

  2. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    One would hope so. although he is claiming that he would be running only if Trump and Sanders get the nod.

  3. Avatar for jarnj3 jarnj3 says:

    Is this guy (Priebus) even relevant any more?

  4. I think this is Jedi mind games, by this dude, with the obviously fake name.

  5. No. What a wimp/

    Guess he doesn’t have the party heads behind him.

    What party heads?

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