that he watched what happened with howard schultz and the backlash that he s gotten and kind of put his finger on the pulse right now, the kind of billionaire fatigue, if you will, the pulse of the democratic party, and calculated that he would be more of a white knight if he swooped in with his money to help on specific causes and with specific candidates. and this is potentially the last time we re going to be doing this parlor game with mike bloomberg because i think he s made a definitive decision here. and it does also mean i think he s clearly talked to joe biden, everybody s talked to joe biden behind the scenes and he knows what i think we ve all inferred from other signals that joe biden is getting in and that that space that joe biden occupies would really make it even more difficult for mike bloomberg to compete. yamiche? i think that s pretty fair. there s this idea that michael bloomberg is clear-eyed, looking
increasing this litmus test tug to the left on issues like medicare for all and the green new deal. and yamiche, the hillary clinton comment to local channel 12 in new york that she wasn t getting in the race, then there was some pushback from some of her, you know, close allies, telling maggie haberman, i didn t mean to be definitive about that, and she got into this whole mean girl kind of tweet with the president, because the president tweeted, crooked hillary clinton confirms she will not run, aww shucks, does that mean i won t get to run against her again, she will be sorely missed, and that of course led to her response, yamiche. it s one of those things that hillary clinton continues to be this bogeyman that president trump likes to use. i was at cpac where people still had hillary clinton for prison on. i think as heidi and you were talking about, this idea of billionaire fatigue, i think there s also hillary fatigue.