GOP front-runner Donald Trump said Tuesday he hopes former New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg will jump into the presidential race, as he love the competition.
"He is a friend of mine," the New York real estate mogul told
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program. "I would love to see Michael in the race actually. I think he should do it. In fact, I think I will call him later and say, do it."
Bloomberg is "different" and was a good mayor who had a "rough last four years," said Trump, but would have been better off if he hadn't served a third term in office.
The former mayor, should he enter the race, would clearly hurt Democrats more than Republicans, because "he is pro-gun control, he's in favor of abortion rights — all the social issues," said Trump of Bloomberg, who has said he's considering a race because he's concerned over Trump's candidacy.
"I did him a big favor. He had a horrible project that was a total mess, it was under construction for 25 years, at least, and he couldn't get it built. No matter what they did, they couldn't get it built," said Trump of Bloomberg.
"I took it over and got it built in less than a year, this is last term. I said I'm going to get it open for you before you leave and I got it open in October and he left in January."
The Bronx project, Trump said, shows how "the best thing I do is build . . . when you have an infrastructure of a country like ours that is absolutely decaying and rotting and falling apart and — by the way, we're spending $5 trillion in the Middle East instead of doing what we're supposed to be doing — we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, but we have to get back to rebuilding our country. Look at our railways, bridges, tunnels."
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