Bloomberg seeks to woo skeptical California on first visit as 2020 hopeful

Former mayor wins endorsement of Democratic rising star as he faces scrutiny over stop-and-frisk policy

On his first visit to California as a Democratic candidate for president, Michael Bloomberg picked up a key endorsement – and danced around his legacy of stop-and-frisk.

The former New York mayor made his case to voters in the city of Stockton on Wednesday and announced the endorsement of the Stockton mayor, Michael Tubbs – a rising star in the Democratic party and the city’s first African American mayor.

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