Bloomberg (!):

I’s not clear whether the climate of anger would be favorable to a third-party bid being considered by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who told the Financial Times on the eve of the New Hampshire vote that he was “looking at all options.”

“I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters,” said Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. He told the newspaper that the U.S. public deserved “a lot better” and that if he decided to go ahead with such a bid, he’d need to start in March to put his name on ballots across the nation.

Last week, a person familiar with his plans who was not authorized to speak on the record told Bloomberg News that Bloomberg’s decision would depend in part on whether the more ideological candidates won the major parties’ primaries. Marc La Vorgna, a spokesman for Michael Bloomberg, declined to comment on the Financial Times story and said there would be no comment on last night’s New Hampshire vote, “regardless of outcome.”