Clint Eastwood: electing Bloomberg would make my day – By Martin Pengelly (The Guardian) / Feb 23 2020
Actor breaks with Republican party to back former New York mayor for president
Clint Eastwood has backed Mike Bloomberg for president, breaking with the Republican party he has supported for decades and even served in elected office.
“The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there,” the 89-year-old actor and director told the Wall Street Journal of the billionaire former New York mayor, whose run for the Democratic nomination to face Donald Trump has generated poll surges and weapons-grade controversy over his past policies and comments.
Eastwood also said he approved of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wanted the president to act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names”.
“I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level,” he said, adding that national politics “has gotten so ornery”.
Eastwood has said he is a registered Libertarian and has backed Democrats but most of his own experience lies in Republican party politics. From 1986 to 1988, he was mayor of Carmel, California.
“I was a Republican, but people never thought about their parties except at the national level,” he said. “I drank a lot of tea and chatted with people. I told people, ‘I’ll fix this, and I’ll fix that.’”
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