Billionaire and former
New York City Mayor has only officially been running for president for a few hours, but he already has a few skeptics on both sides of the political spectrum. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) during an appearance on Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week said she doesn't think people are going to "buy" Bloomberg's run, especially if his argument centers around having more money than President Trump. "I think they want someone different," Klobuchar said, referring to voters.
White House counselor
Kellyanne Conway actually had some compliments ready to go for Bloomberg while on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, praising his tenure as New York's mayor. But she suggested Americans won't want to bring a billionaire into the Oval Office, painting Trump's 2016 campaign as a rag-tag group in an attempt to differentiate the two despite their wealth. Even if Bloomberg could win the general
election, Conway doesn't suspect he'll be able to win over
Democrats in the first place.There might be something to that, analyst Joel Payne said at a different point on Face the Nation. Payne's point was that Bloomberg's time spent as an independent over the last 10 years (not to mention the fact that he served as a
Republican while mayor) could be one of the major factors that prevents Democrats from voting for him.