Bloomberg: 'I'm spending all my money to get rid of Trump'

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said he was willing to spend much of his fortune to defeat President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. He rejected criticism from his competitors for the Democratic Party's nomination that the businessman would be trying to buy his victory.

Listed by Forbes magazine as the eighth richest American, Bloomberg has flooded the media and social media with messages that he has the best chance of beating Republican Trump. Since November, when he belatedly launched his pre-candidacy, he is spending more on ads than his Democratic opponents throughout the past year.

"The number one priority is to get rid of Donald Trump. I'm spending all my money to get rid of Trump," Bloomberg told Reuters on his campaign bus on Saturday 11, during a nearly 500-kilometer trip around Texas, one of 14 states that will vote in the Democratic super-Tuesday primaries on 3 March.

"Do you want me to spend more or less? That's the end," he added.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the top Democratic pre-candidates who promised to fend off the money policy, criticized Bloomberg when he launched his campaign with a $37 million blitz in television ads and accused the former Mayor of New York of trying to buy American democracy.

"It's just political things they say, hoping they'll take it, and they don't like me doing it because it's up to them, not because it's a bad policy," Bloomberg said.

After entering the race late and losing the first six Democratic debates, Bloomberg has appeared in fifth place in the national polls of voting intention, behind former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden,Senators Bernie Sanders and Warren and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. For Bloomberg, the four contestants are too progressive to beat Trump.

"One of the reasons I'm relatively confident that I can beat Trump is that I would be acceptable to moderate Republicans that you need to attract," said Bloomberg, a former Republican who made his fortune with a financial intelligence agency for Wall Street companies.

"Like it or not, you can't win the election if you don't have the vote of moderate Republicans to cross the finish line. The others (pre-candidates) are very liberal to them (Republican voters), who would certainly vote for Donald Trump," he said.

Bloomberg will be out of the first four primary votes by the Democratic nomination - in the states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina - which will be held in February.

Meanwhile, he has played a national campaign to rally delegates in subsequent disputes such as texas, which will be the second highest prize among the 14 Super-Tuesday states.