Throughout his roughly 12-minute speech, Bloomberg peppered in several local references while making his pitch to an audience of an estimated 1,100 people.
NASHVILLE—With less than three weeks until Tennessee's presidential primary, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg returned to Nashville Wednesday, seeking to energize locals to reaffirm his big gamble for Super Tuesday states.
The crowd featured several prominent former and current elected Tennessee officials, including Metro Vice Mayor Jim Shulman, Criminal Court Clerk Howard Gentry, state Democratic Party chair Mary Mancini, Reps. London Lamar and Antonio Parkinson, and former House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh and former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
Before launching his presidential campaign, Bloomberg apologized for the stop and frisk policy, which disproportionately affected African Americans. "The other candidates, they spend all their time in a couple of states that I wanted to enter but I came too late to go there," he said.
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