Mike Bloomberg Reportedly Asked Andrew Yang To Be His Running Mate, Got Turned Down

By NY Post
Posted on 02/27/20 | News Source: MATZAV

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign reached out to Democrat Andrew Yang seeking his endorsement and supposedly dangled an offer to run as his vice president as the bait, a new report said Thursday.

The ex-mayor’s aides contacted Yang in the hopes that the two could work together as Bloomberg seeks the Democratic nomination, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.

Yang, an entrepreneur like the billionaire Bloomberg, dropped out of the race earlier this month, turned down the offer because he was mulling his own political future, the paper reported.

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