Sam Donaldson says he’s backing Mike Bloomberg. Journalists have a problem with that.
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Sam Donaldson says he’s a free agent now — a citizen, no longer the newsman he was for more than 50 years. So he’s doing something that he would never do during all those years he covered politicians and campaigns: He’s endorsing a candidate.
The famously feisty former ABC anchor put his name and decades of presumed credibility behind Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign last week. “I’m backing Mike Bloomberg,” he says in a video released by the former New York mayor’s campaign. “Bloomberg can beat Trump.”
While Donaldson’s endorsement seems unlikely to sway many voters, it certainly got the attention of journalists and former journalists, whose reactions have ranged from “Attaboy!” to “How could you?!”
Older viewers probably remember his combative questioning of President Ronald Reagan during his time as a White House correspondent and his stints as the host of such ABC news programs as “PrimeTime Live” and “This Week.”
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