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> Bloomberg knew he would enter the race long before he announced.

Did he though?

Michael Bloomberg says he will not run for president in 2020

> Did he though?

Of course he knew. Do you think he woke up one day, listened to some Bernie/Yang/Warren speech and decided he needs to run for president?

Yes, by the time the article the OP posted dropped (November 2019) he did know. The article you posted is from March 2019.

My point was Mike Bloomberg has pretty much always been thinking about running for president for at least the last twelve years.