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Michael Bloomberg Files Paperwork To Get On The Texas Primary Ballot

KERA | By Alex Samuels, Texas Tribune
Published November 20, 2019 at 2:00 PM CST
Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, arrives for the 74th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York in October.
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Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, arrives for the 74th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York in October.

Michael Bloomberg filed today for the Democratic presidential primary in Texas, according to the Texas Secretary of State.

The move is notable considering Bloomberg, a billionaire and former New York City mayor, has not yet announced his candidacy, but is reportedly preparing to run. His advisers have said he would skip all four traditional early-state contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, and instead focus his campaign in Super Tuesday states, which include Texas.

Bloomberg mailed his ballot application to the state party headquarters in Austin and paid the $2,500 filing fee, according to the party.

Aside from Texas, Bloomberg has filed paperwork to be on the ballots in Alabama and Arkansas.

Bloomberg is the fourth person to file for the primary in Texas. Pete Buttigieg was first on Nov. 9, followed by U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California later that day and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota on Tuesday.

The sole Texan in the race, former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, has yet to file to put his name on the Texas ballot.

The deadline to file is Dec. 9.

The Texas Tribune provided this story

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Alex Samuels, Texas Tribune
Alex Samuels is a reporting fellow for the Texas Tribune and a journalism senior at The University of Texas at Austin. She came to the Tribune in fall 2016 as a newsletters fellow, writing the daily Brief and contributing to the water, education and health newsletters. Alex previously worked for USA Today College as both a collegiate correspondent and their first-ever breaking news correspondent. She has also worked for the Daily Dot where she covered politics, race, and social issues.
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