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Party registration is not an immutable property.

• mrguyorama 7y ago
  I was pointing out that it was not "supposed" at all. Trump is a former democrat in exactly the same way that Bloomberg is a former republican. There was no reason to weasel word it
  • tomjakubowski 7y ago
    Bloomberg was elected two times as mayor on the Republican ticket. Trump was never elected as a Democrat.
  • danso 7y ago
    Fair enough. I think the more important thing is that Bloomberg registered as a Republican and then ran (and won) as a Republican for elected office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Michael_Bloomberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Michael_Bloomberg You can register whatever party you want as a regular citizen, but it doesn't dictate who you vote for or what you believe in or actually do.
    • takeda 7y ago
      Exactly, also Bloomberg only changed his party affiliation in 2018, when we had record number of voters during non presidential election, and Democrats winning large number of seats. Given other information about him, and even last debate he is the absolute weakest candidate, almost feels like he is there to spoil the election to help the incumbent.