Mike Bloomberg Is Quietly Racking Up House Endorsements
The former New York mayor currently sits in second in the House endorsement count behind Joe Biden
In 2003, when Ben McAdams was wrapping up his JD at Columbia Law School, Michael Bloomberg was just getting started in his new job as New York mayor. McAdams, who stayed in New York for four more years working as a securities lawyer, was drawn to Bloomberg’s charisma — his bravado.
In 2007, McAdams moved back to his native Utah, where he would serve two terms as mayor of Salt Lake County. He modeled some of his politics after Bloomberg — for example, the social impact bonds that leveraged both Wall Street financing and tax dollars to cover educational initiatives in low-income areas. Now that McAdams is a congressman representing Utah’s 4th district and Bloomberg is a rising force in the Democratic presidential primary, that admiration is even more meaningful.
McAdams is one of 13 members of the House to endorse Bloomberg for the presidency — a number that places the former mayor second among presidential hopefuls, according to FiveThirtyEight. Joe Biden is first with 42 House endorsements; Elizabeth Warren has 12; Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg each have seven.
