January 18, 2008 EIR Feature 31. potential Bloomberg candidacy, including by columnist Rich-. ard Cohen, the online Huffington Post, and Roll Call. Nov. 10, 2007: Lyndon LaRouche releases a statement, forecasting that Bloomberg will be run as a âsurpriseâ Presi-. dential candidate, saying: âThe build-up of former New York. Mayor Giuliani as a âhot prospectâ for the man to beat Hillary. Clinton in the coming U.S. Presidential election, was a crafted. set-up, designed . . . for the present New York Mayor to. emerge, as if âmiraculously,â as Senator Hillary Clintonâs re-. ally intended Republican challenger.