Since Mike Bloomberg is currently competing for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President
of the United States, media scrutiny has been intense for the new guy going up against Joe
Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the rest of
the now-dwindling Democratic pack.
And while many know Bloomberg as the billionaire former mayor of New York City, details about
his personal life tend to be less in the spotlight.
For instance, the 78-year-old has been dating former New York State Superintendent of Banks
Diana Taylor for 20 years, and even she admits she's a bit of a unicorn.
In fact, she told the Washington Post in February 2020, quote, "I'm a unicorn in a unicorn campaign."
So what do we know about her and her connection with the former mayor?
In their two decades together, the pair hasn't tied the knot, and 65-year-old Taylor admitted
to the Post,
"Nobody's come up with the language around what we are."
She's not a fan of the phrase "girlfriend," saying it sounds "so temporary" and "very
junior high."
But no matter what you call Taylor, one thing is clear: She's a huge supporter of the 12th
richest man in the world's campaign, telling the Post,
"He is a man of incredible capabilities and resources.
I've always thought that he'd be a really good president."
"Michael Bloomberg is a man of total and complete integrity."
Similarly, Bloomberg thinks highly of his partner, telling Harper's Bazaar in 2011,
"She's very smart, very driven, very insightful, and she's capable of doing anything."
Even though she campaigns for her partner, Taylor doesn't get stuck in Bloomberg's shadow.
The Greenwich, Connecticut native has always been a career woman through and through.
Outside of the state-level banking oversight gig she's perhaps best known for, she's held
several high-profile jobs, including managing director at Wolfensohn Fund Management, a
private equity firm.
Taylor attended Dartmouth as an undergrad and got an MBA from Columbia University.
Throughout her career, she's had a go-with-the-flow attitude, telling the Observer in 2011,
"I've never really planned anything.
I've basically seen opportunities as they come up and they've turned out to be really
good ones."
Being so busy is apparently what keeps her relationship balanced.
In that same profile, she said of Bloomberg,
"He's doing his thing and I have my life, too, and things that are important to me."
But unlike her partner, Taylor opted out of politics, despite reportedly being approached
by Republicans to run for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat in 2010.
She later told Harper's,
"It wasn't the right time.
I want to make a difference, and how I'm doing that now is through the not-for-profit work."
She felt like if she was a, quote, "junior member of a minority party," she wouldn't
be able to accomplish all she would've wanted.
While Bloomberg has two adult daughters with his ex-wife Susan Brown, including Georgina,
seen here with her dad and Taylor at the 2016 U.S. Open, Bloomberg and Taylor, who is also
divorced, haven't had any children together.
Not having kids reportedly helped her career to take off, as Taylor told the Observer,
"I never had to run home and help anybody with their homework.
That was a whole very time-consuming aspect I didn't have to worry about...You have to
do what you're comfortable with and what makes you happy and that's not the same for everybody."
The reason behind that choice is pretty simple, too.
She told the Post,
"I never had kids because there was never anyone I wanted to have kids with.
I define myself first and foremost as I've had a fairly successful career.
I define myself by my family: my parents or my brother or sister and their families."
Just like her partner, Taylor only recently became a registered Democrat.
She met Bloomberg, in fact, at a 2000 business luncheon, telling Harper's Bazaar,
"We were seated next to each other because I was the only Republican in the room."
In a 2011 interview, Taylor self-identified as a Republican, but clarified to the Observer,
"I'm socially very liberal.
I don't understand why anybody cares who marries who.
I think that guns should not be in the hands of criminals, and I'm rabidly-pro-choice.
It's nobody else's business, and I'm fiscally quite conservative."
She was also hyper-critical of then-President Obama, saying,
"For somebody's who's going to come in and be the great unifier, you know, that hopey-changey
stuff, it hasn't worked very well."
Taylor told the Post in February 2020 that she knows which side she's on these days,
saying,
"I'm sort of a unique partner of a presidential candidate on a lot of different levels.
I think I have a pretty good idea of who I am at this point."
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