 Bloomberg announced that he would finance his campaign personally and would not accept donations.In addition to spending on advertising, Bloomberg's campaign set aside between $15 million to $20 million to register a half million voters in five battleground states that had swung to Trump in 2016.According to editor-in-chief John Micklethwait of "Bloomberg News," because of Bloomberg's ownership of the "News" (which refrains from investigating its owner) as well as his candidacy in the Democratic Party primaries, it will likewise refrain from investigating rival candidates throughout the primaries.