President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has explained why Trump would prefer to run against former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg over Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
"Frankly, I would rather run against Bloomberg than Bernie Sanders," Trump said on Tuesday, the day Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, according to Fox Business. "Because Sanders has real followers, whether you like them or not, whether you agree with them or not — I happen to think it's terrible what he says — but he has followers."
"You look at Bernie Sanders' excitement on the left," Lewandowski said during Fox Nation's coverage of the primary. "He's a true self-avowed socialist but he has a group of core supporters who have been next to him for four or five years."
He added, "Michael Bloomberg, by contrast, is someone who is coming late to the game, bypassed the early primary states, and thinks he's going to buy his way into the presidency. I think it's a good story for the president to take on Michael Bloomberg if he's actually going to be the nominee."
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