Judge Judy just endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president

(Image credit: Screenshot/Youtube/Mike Bloomberg)

published 6 January 2020

Judge Judy Sheindlin is getting political for the first time.

On Monday, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2020 campaign debuted a video revealing the family court judge turned TV star was endorsing Bloomberg for president. "I like to say you can judge a person by what they've done," Sheindlin said, continuing to say that "Mike Bloomberg has done amazing things," making him the right person to "bring us through these very challenging times."

Sheindlin expanded on her endorsement in a Monday appearance on The View, where co-host Whoopi Goldberg acknowledged she'd "never endorsed anybody" before. Sheindlin said she decided to take a stand now because "I've never seen America so angry with each other as a family," and suggested Bloomberg's "experience in governance" as well as philanthropy and his business-minded attitude could help fix it. Kathryn Krawczyk

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.