The former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg will endorse Hillary Clinton in a primetime speech at the Democratic national convention this week, according a senior adviser. Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican party, appealed to our ‘better angels’. Bloomberg left the Democratic party in 2000, won the mayoral election in New York City as a Republican in 2002 and brought the Republican national convention to the city in 2004. “This week in Philadelphia, he will make a strong case that the clear choice in this election is Hillary Clinton,” the former mayor’s longtime adviser Howard Wolfson told the Guardian. The Democratic national convention begins Monday, with a primetime speech by Bernie Sanders, whom Bloomberg has accused of “demagoguery” for the senator’s frequent attacks on Wall Street.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2016 19:41 UTC