Unprecedented strategy? Spewing money 360 degrees?
If he promises to spend every penny he owns I promise to vote for him.
Mighty Mouse, without the might and the proper species...
Bloomturd isn’t going anywhere. Immensely unlikable close and at far.
I have fun trolling the Left when I talk about how Bloomberg didn’t give a crap if you were white, black, hispanic, or LGBT - if you committed a crime in HIS CITY, you were thrown in jail.
The Social Justice mob simply CANNOT deal with that concept.
Mike Bloomberg running is a disgrace to blacks and women.
Big Gulp, Little Mike.
He isn’t a serious candidate. He is becoming a self funded candidate so he can avoid all FEC rules and essentially donate a ton of cash to the DNC. He will run a ton of Trump hating ads that in effect will benefit whoever the dem candidate is...while pretending it’s his campaign. No matter how low he drops in polls, he will remain in the race. And that is why.
Its an end run on campaign contributions.
Spending wads of cash and limiting exposure? Sounds like Hillary to me...
I figure he’s won’t have too much time left being in his 70s and this is a good way to spend billions that you can’t take with you. There is an irony to this in that he saved and invested his whole life and now it comes down to one shake of the dice.
FTA:
“Whether Bloomberg can emerge as an alternative without spending time in early states or facing off on the debate stage remains in doubt.”
Bloomturd’s big problem is he’s acting exactly like the arrogant, entitled multi-billionaire he is, thereby playing into the stereotype his opponents are using against him.
Indeed, he’s using the politician’s equivalent of trying to buy oneself into the Navy Seals without going through the training. The early states’ primaries and caucuses have come to be there to allow less well financed candidates a shot at the nomination and to give everybody, within reasonable limits, a chance at the debates. By blowing the whole process off Bloomie is disrespecting all the voters, Democrat and Republican. By refusing to take any donations, he’s escaping the need to go to a large number of voters and ask for their material support, something that’s vital to get people to buy into a campaign and become ardent supporters, just as PDJT has done.
He will remove the Dim also-rans from the pack.
The weak will be annihilated on Super Tuesday. And it’s even MORE super now that CA holds primaries that date. Fully 20% of Dim delegates have been added to the stakes.
IA and NH no longer matter AT ALL in the nomination process.
Probably his real strategy is to have his name out there for when a brokered convention seeks a nominee.
Another NYC Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, similarly skipped the early states ..to focus on Florida and the Super Tuesday states. The strategy ended badly...
Maybe not so unprecedented, just hasn’t worked yet.
Yes, he’s not that popular but apparently neither are his opponents. Money talks, BS walks and B’burg has plenty of the former, while his opponents have the latter.
Other than the nanny state stuff, he had a pretty good record in NYC. Also a big time philanthropist. By the time he spends millions on his image the low info types will think he’s Mother Teresa.
B’burg, will overwhelm the center lane crowding out the scandal ridden, idiot Biden who will fade away. I hear some “experts” predicting a brokered convention where B’burg buys delegates to get the nom.
I think a B’burg / Harris ticket with unlimited funds could be hard to beat.
Keep drinkin’ that sugary Kool-Ade, you Bloomin’ Idiot
The Dems “reformed” their rules so that if no one has a majority on the first ballot there is no commitment to a candidate from then on. That could get really ugly. How will Sanders’ and other far-left deegates respond when they’re ignored? (FWIW, I got a taste of what arm twisting looks like. When I was on the “welcome to Cleveland” hospitality committee for the RNC, I encountered a situation where some Republican mischief makers tried to browbeat some younger delegates into abandoning Trump). If chaos erupts, Bloomberg could get it out of spite from delegates who are ignored.
“Bloomberg, who officially threw his hat in the Democratic primary ring last week, will not accept donations nor fund his own campaign, ...”
hmmmm
A big reason for the focus on the early states has to do with fundraising. Most candidates have to fund their candidacies with other people’s money. Even Trump needed that funding, mainly because he wasn’t inclined to fund his campaign 100% with his own money. Bloomberg has always funded his campaigns 100% with his own cash. So when he ran for mayor in NYC, his campaigns were also completely different from the way any other NYC mayoral candidate ever had conducted his campaign. His political career so far is 3 for 3. He’s looking to make it 4 for 4.
In short, a huge propaganda blitz from a billionaire. Yuk.