Michael Bloomberg’s campaign team started cleaning up after its candidate before he has officially entered the 2020 presidential race.
A spokesperson from Bloomberg’s campaign issued an apology after a report from the New York Times revealed the former New York City mayor had made many demeaning comments about women.
Bloomberg, 78, made several remarks suggesting that women should be left to go shopping instead of making important decisions, according to the report. People close to him claimed he said, “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s.”
He also used a joke in his sales pitches to potential buyers where he would tell his computer terminal “do everything” including oral sex, adding, “I guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business.”
These accusations had surfaced before, but Bloomberg brushed them off as “borscht belt jokes.” His campaign, however, took a softer approach and apologized for the remarks.
Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Bloomberg and his former press secretary, said, “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong. He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life.”
Bloomberg hasn’t officially announced his entry into the Democratic presidential primary, but he did file to run in Alabama on Monday.
