The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. March 8, 2016 Bloomberg Says He Won't Run for President, Fearing Trump Could Win ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ahead of today's contests, former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced he would not run for president as an independent, saying he feared his entry into the race could help lead to the election of Donald Trump as president. Bloomberg said Trump is running "the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember." .