--- title: Murdoch Touts Bloomberg for President description: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced his top choice for a presidential candidate canonical: https://time.com/4009565/murdoch-bloomberg-president/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-25T12:46:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:24:49.817Z article:section: Politics og:title: Murdoch Touts Bloomberg for President og:description: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced his top choice for a presidential candidate og:url: https://time.com/4009565/murdoch-bloomberg-president/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Murdoch Touts Bloomberg for President twitter:description: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced his top choice for a presidential candidate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rupert Murdoch Touts Michael Bloomberg for President  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 25, 2015 12:46 PM UTC  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 25, 2015 12:46 PM UTC Media mogul Rupert Murdoch [announced](https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/635621842477318144) his top choice for a presidential candidate on Sunday, urging New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to “step into \[the\] ring.” Murdoch touted Bloomberg as a serious contender to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who has held a narrow lead in the polls, despite stiff competition and a string of controversial comments. Murdoch dubbed Bloomberg as the alternative “billionaire candidate.” Murdoch was tweeting from a yacht above the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia, where he also seemed to suggest climate change damage to the reef was untrue. > [](https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/635621842477318144) He later seemed to backtrack: > [](https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/635657520393097216) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4009565/murdoch-bloomberg-president/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4009565/murdoch-bloomberg-president/"},"headline":"Rupert Murdoch Touts Michael Bloomberg for President","datePublished":"2015-08-25T12:46:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:24:49.817Z","description":"\"It's time for next billionaire candidate, Mike Bloomberg to step into ring\"","url":"https://time.com/4009565/murdoch-bloomberg-president/","keywords":["2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4009565/murdoch-bloomberg-president/","name":"Rupert Murdoch Touts Michael Bloomberg for President"}}]}] ```