Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA, 52nd District), endorsed Mike Bloomberg for President, citing his Plans to Fight Climate Change, Spiraling Gun Deaths, and Holding him up as having the Best Chance to Defeat President Trump.

Peters will Serve as National Chair for Bloomberg’s Climate, Energy, and Environment Council, is the Fifth House Member to Sign-On.

“I thought about it a lot, and the thing that convinced me Mike Bloomberg is the right candidate is that we don’t have to guess who he is: We know he’s a successful business executive, a successful mayor and we know through his philanthropy what he cares about — and that matches my values,” Peters said, in Announcing his Decision. “Whether it’s guns, or climate or economic injustice, I just have a lot of confidence that this is a person who is up to the task on the big issues that face the country.”

In the Interview, Peters added that Electability, a Central Pillar of Bloomberg’s Late-Starting Campaign, also Contributed to his Decision to Endorse a Candidate a week before the Rest of the Democrats Compete in the Iowa Caucuses.

“All the polling shows that he’s one of the two or three most-likely candidates to beat Donald Trump,” Peters said, pointing at National Surveys and to Key Swing States where Bloomberg has Surged since Announcing his Run in late November 2019.

An Environmental Lawyer who came up through San Diego Politics before Flipping a Seat for Democrats in 2012, Peters is a Vice Chair of the Pro-Business Group New Democrats, whose Members huddled with Bloomberg on his Recent Visit to Capitol Hill. Peters, whose Longtime Chief of Staff, MaryAnne Pintar, is a Regional Political Director for Bloomberg in California, has Warned Democrats against Nominating a Progressive like Sens. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, saying their Policies would make them more Vulnerable to Trump in November.

“I do believe we need an alternative to Sen. Sanders and Sen. Warren,” Peters said last week, after the Bloomberg Meeting with Colleagues in Washington but before he Formally decided on an Endorsement. “I don’t think that those are candidates who will win a general election. And I also disagree with them more on policy.”

Other Endorsements include:

- Rep. Max Rose (D-NY, 11th District) is Bloomberg's First Endorsement.

- Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL, 7th District)

- Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA, 7th District)

- Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL, 1st District)










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