Mike Bloomberg admitted Monday he might not enter the Democratic Presidential Convention with the most delegates, but he expressed confidence he still had a shot at the nomination through "horse trading" and "deals" in a possible brokered convention.
"The most likely scenario for the Democratic Party is no one has a majority — it goes to a convention where there's horse trading; there's compromise," Bloomberg said during a Fox News Channel town hall. "It doesn't even have to be the leading candidate; it could be the one with a smaller number of delegates."
Noting that Democratic Party rules require the nominee to have a majority of delegates, not simply a plurality, Bloomberg said party insiders, or "superdelegates," can cast votes if no candidate has enough delegates on the first ballot.
"If the rules say you can swap votes and make deals, then you can swap votes and make deals," he said. "And if you don't like those rules, don't play."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has hinted at a similar strategy. While Warren is only in the single digits in delegates, Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, has yet to collect a single delegate, having opted to skip the first four states for Super Tuesday.
"Look, I haven't even faced the voters once in the national level, so tomorrow will be the first day," Bloomberg said.
"I do not think that Bernie Sanders has the right ideas for this country; I don't think that he can beat Donald Trump because I don't think the country wants revolutionary change; I think the country wants evolutionary change," he said, indicating he has no intentions of dropping out no matter how he fares Tuesday.
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