Posted on 02/20/2020 4:38:31 PM PST by karpov
LAS VEGAS — Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors allied with his moderate opponents to flip their allegiance to him — and block Bernie Sanders — in the event of a brokered national convention.
The effort, largely executed by Bloomberg’s senior state-level advisers in recent weeks, attempts to prime Bloomberg for a second-ballot contest at the Democratic National Convention in July by poaching supporters of Joe Biden and other moderate Democrats, according to two Democratic strategists familiar with the talks and unaffiliated with Bloomberg.
The outreach has involved meetings and telephone calls with supporters of Biden and Pete Buttigieg — as well as uncommitted DNC members — in Virginia, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and North Carolina, according to one of the strategists who participated in meetings and calls.
With Sanders’ emergence as the frontrunner in the presidential primary, Democrats in those states have recently raised the prospect that the democratic socialist could be a top-of-the-ticket liability.
“There’s a whole operation going on, which is genius,” said one of the strategists, who is unaffiliated with any campaign. “And it’s going to help them win on the second ballot … They’re telling them that’s their strategy.”
It’s a presumptuous play for a candidate who hasn’t yet won a delegate or even appeared on a ballot. And it could also bring havoc to the convention, raising the prospect of party insiders delivering the nomination to a billionaire over a progressive populist.
Other candidates have quietly been in contact for months with superdelegates — the DNC members, members of Congress and other party officials who cannot vote on the first ballot at a contested national convention — but none have showcased it as a feature of their campaign, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
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Word to the wise: stay away from Milwaukee during the Democrat convention.
NOBODY cares what Illary says or does.
She spent 1.4 billion dollars and still lost a rigged election to a political nobody.
Some guy at AOS pointed out that Bloomberg looks a lot like Dr. Loveless. He really does. We need to circulate the “Miguelito Bloomberg” meme.
Can’t you just hear him saying “we meet again, Mr. Trump”
Comedy gold, Jerry
Bloomberg is going to need a song for his campaign theme
May I suggest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv9sDn_2XkI
Bloomberg and the others are far more dangerous to our country than Bernie’s young commies.
All those “Moderates” who take extreme positions on abortion, gun control, illegal immigration etc.
We should also be focused on keeping the Senate and winning the House.
Bernie Bro’s won’t be happy with being shafted again.
I thought only the Russians meddled in elections!
After yesterdays debate, that may be a hard sell.
“They realize that winning the Presidency in 2020 is unlikely. There main effort will be to prevent a Congressional debacle.”
I agree. And their BEST option to prevent half of their base from sitting out the election is to NOT try to sabotage Bernie, should he be the apparent nominee. Likewise anyone else. Just let the process play out, and if the base thinks it was fair, they’ll go to the polls to try to rid the country of its Fascist dictator (as they see President Trump).
Anything else is suicide.
Oh yeah. 1968 all over again.
If Mini Mike gets the nomination, the Berniebots will stay home, or vote for PDJT out of spite. They will riot in Milwaukee first.
I’m the fly in the ointment. The monkey in the wrench.
“The plan is to get Hillary to win.”
I don’t think she’ll win, but literally EVERYTHING has been moving in favor of her riding on to the convention floor on her white stallion, (I would say ‘nude’ but that upsets some here, so I won’t mention it), and RESCUING the party from a deadlocked convention. Obviously all her plotting, starting from the DNC rule change which tricked the base into thinking that Bernie (or whoever wound up as the most popular) wouldn’t be screwed again).
That is her plan and that is the ONLY reason Bloomberg is running - he knows full-well that he has so much baggage that he could never be competitive against Trump.
Word to the wise: stay away from Milwaukee during the Democrat convention.
I live 30 miles North West of Milwaukee and I’ll be sitting out on my patio with a six pack of my favorite IPA while watching the clouds of smoke slowly rise into the sky as the city burns.
Welp, someone posts that on every thread so maybe you could check the archives and see what they decided.
What me worry?
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