Michael Bloomberg s latest campaign video has him getting the endorsement of several dogs even if he likes shaking them by the snout .
The former New York City mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful released a 30-second video on Wednesday in which a number of pooches express their approval of him, via some helpful voice-over actors.
Mikes not afraid of the NRA, one puppy says. Not one bit.
Earlier this week, a video of the billionaire awkwardly interacting with a dog went viral.
In that video, Bloomberg can be seen greeting some folks during a campaign stop in Vermont. He pets a dog, then shakes a couple of peoples hands, then grabs the dogs face for a moment, as though it were also a persons hand. The dog, which wags its tail throughout the whole encounter, doesnt seem distressed by it.
Bloomberg apparently greeted another dog the same way at a 2013 event in New York, according to a photo taken at the time.
Wednesdays campaign video amassed more than 200,000 views within a few hours. The former mayor himself tweeted it out with the hashtag #DogsFurMike, writing: Dog people get me. Dogs too.
At the end of the video, Bloombergs own dog Cody approves the message, and we see a photo of Bloomberg petting a dogs head the normal, human way. In 2011, The New York Times reported that the then-mayor had a somewhat distant relationship with his girlfriends Labradors, Bonnie and Clyde, which he permitted to live with him but refused to care for.
Bloombergs campaign team did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the ad.
As of press time, dogs were still unable to vote.