Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that an independent candidacy would likely “end up re-electing the President.”

The statement was seemingly a not-so-veiled reference to former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who has said on Twitter and in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday that he’s considering an independent bid for the presidency.

I love our country, and I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent. — Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019

Schultz told “60 Minutes”: “I will run as a centrist independent, outside of the two-party system.”

Bloomberg seemed to respond to the interview in his statement Monday.

“In 2020, the great likelihood is that an independent would just split the anti-Trump vote and end up re-electing the President,” Bloomberg wrote. “That’s a risk I refused to run in 2016 and we can’t afford to run it now.”

He added: “We must remain united, and we must not allow any candidate to divide or fracture us. The stakes couldn’t be higher.”

Read Bloomberg’s full “Statement on Independent Run” here, or below: