Draft Bloomberg movement

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The Draft Bloomberg movement is a political draft movement in the United States that launched in 2007^[1] as an effort to convince New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for President of the United States as an independent candidate in the 2008 election.^[2][3] The movement ended for that election cycle on February 28, 2008, when Bloomberg formally announced that he would not run for president.^[4]

The movement relaunched in late 2010 as an effort to persuade Bloomberg to make a presidential bid and/or lead in the formation of a viable third party in 2012.^[5][6][7] Eight years later, he eventually entered the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and lost.