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Headline Roundup January 23rd, 2016

Bloomberg Might Enter Race

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Bloomberg seriously considering White House bid, source says
Bloomberg seriously considering White House bid, source says

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously considering a possible independent presidential run and is looking at making a decision sometime in March, a source familiar with Bloomberg's thinking told CNN on Saturday.

The source said aides to the three-term mayor are looking at ballot access issues, but the source refused to speak specifically about what Bloomberg, 73, asked to be done.

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Bloomberg Mulls $1 Billion Bid for White House
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is looking to mount a $1 billion bid for the White House as an independent candidate, with sources saying he's alarmed by Donald Trump at the top of the GOP field and Democrat Bernie Sanders' surge past Hillary Clinton in the polls.

The billionaire former mayor has considered independent presidential runs in the past, reports The New York Times, but decided against them after concludin

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Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run
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Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this yearโ€™s presidential race. His advisers and associates said he was galled by Donald J. Trumpโ€™s dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clintonโ€™s stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.

Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has in the past contemplated running for the White House on a third-party ticket, but always concluded he could not win. A confluence of...

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