Bloomberg in Fox town hall makes clear at this point he's thinking more about a contested convention than winning outright: "doesn't even have to be one of the two leading candidates .. if the rules say you can swap votes and make deals, then you can swap votes and make deals"
on Pence leading Corona efforts, Bloomberg says, "Seems like a nice guy. I have nothing bad to say about him. But he did say that smoking doesn't cause cancer. ... I don't think you want to go to a doctor and ask a doctor's political persuasion."
"about the third term, it started to get out of hand, and maybe I wasn't paying attention," Bloomberg says of stop-and-frisk. "We didn't pick on any particular ethnicity, but cops always went to the high crime neighborhoods."
"I've probably done a lot more for the Democratic Party than any other candidate," Bloomberg says, when pressed on Biden saying he's not a real Democrat
on China, Bloomberg says: "a lot of my criticisms of Donald Trump are not his policies, but the way he's doing it."
Asked by @BretBaier if maybe Trump got the Taliban peace deal right, Bloomberg says, "Yeah, sure, anything's possible. ... I'm not opposed to what he's doing. I'm just skeptical it's as easy to do as he thinks it is."
@BretBaier Bloomberg town hall just erupted into a couple of simultaneous protests: one guy complaining abt gun restrictions yelling at him, four gay rights protesters yelling "Release the NDAs." Fox went to a commercial break. But in the break, most of the audience cheered & applauded him
@BretBaier Bloomberg says that despite his climate change activism, he flies private because of security concerns that airlines don't want to handle. "There's just too many risks. I'm just too controversial."
@BretBaier Bloomberg on Trump making fun of him: "He has his schtick and he's welcome to it. And I have mine. And that's what it's going to be."
@BretBaier .@BretBaier comes back to the question of if Bloomberg is counting on a contested convention as his way to the nomination: "That is the way it would work out, yes." Says he'd argue Sanders can't win, and "his ideas are crazy."
