{"id":75149,"date":"2019-11-25T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=75149"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:35:21","slug":"new-york-former-mayor-enters-democratic-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/new-york-former-mayor-enters-democratic-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"New York former Mayor enters Democratic presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, today jumped into the US presidential race, adding another moderate voice to a crowded field of Democratic contenders seeking to face Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move represents an about-face for Bloomberg, 77, who had said in March that he would not make a run for the White House. \u201cI\u2019m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America. We cannot afford four more years of President Trump\u2019s reckless and unethical actions,\u201d said Bloomberg, a media mogul who founded Bloomberg LP. Ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest American with an estimated worth of $53.4 billion, Bloomberg will have the advantage of being able to self-finance his campaign and pour millions of dollars into advertising and hiring staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg\u2019s candidacy presents a late challenge to the pack of Democratic contenders near the top in opinion polls fellow centrists Joe Biden, the former US vice president, and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and prominent liberal US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, today jumped into the US presidential race, adding another moderate voice to a crowded field of Democratic contenders seeking to face Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. The move represents an about-face for Bloomberg, 77, who had said in March that [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75151,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75149\/revisions\/75151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}