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Exclusive: Mike Bloomberg will "spend whatever it takes" in 2020
Axios ^ | 11 hours ago | Mike Allen, Margaret Talev

Posted on 11/08/2019 2:11:53 PM PST by Zhang Fei

Mike Bloomberg is jumping into the Democratic presidential race because he believes that Joe Biden is fading, opening the moderate lane next to Elizabeth Warren, sources close to the former New York mayor tell Axios.

Why it matters: "Mike will spend whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump," a Bloomberg source said. "The nation is about to see a very different campaign than we’ve ever seen before."

I'm told there's no way he'll later run as a third-party or independent candidate, partly because of ballot-access hurdles.

Theory of the case: Bloomberg, who according to Forbes is worth $52 billion, will self-fund, allowing him to run an essentially national campaign at a time when the rest of the field is raising money and focusing on early states.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: belarusian; bloomberg; communism; dictatorship; kag; maga; russian; trump
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To: \/\/ayne

[Hillary spent a billion and that didn’t work.]


Hillary’s a talentless hack. Bloomberg built a $50b personal fortune from scratch and won 3 NYC mayoral elections as a Republican despite an electorate that tended to vote overwhelmingly for the Democrat. Even a moron like DeBlasio won 72% in his first outing, thanks to the Democratic machine.


21 posted on 11/08/2019 2:23:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Knock yer self out Bloomie!


22 posted on 11/08/2019 2:24:05 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: M. Thatcher

Especially not the NYPD.


23 posted on 11/08/2019 2:24:46 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Zhang Fei

He’s buying a put option on Biden.


24 posted on 11/08/2019 2:25:03 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Zhang Fei

I hope he runs — and wins the nomination. A whining, authoritarian, homosexual Jewish dwarf from New York City will be lucky to win a single electoral vote between the Delaware River and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.


25 posted on 11/08/2019 2:25:25 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Less for gun control initiatives?😆
26 posted on 11/08/2019 2:26:59 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Larry Lucido

[He’ll bury the other dems and then go nowhere.]


I think his big hurdle is the nomination. If he wins that, he has a strong chance of beating Trump. Moderates and Independents will flock to him. And winning the Dem nomination means he has a lock on the Democrat vote.

For Bloomberg, winning the GOP nomination during his mayoral runs was the easy part. The hard part was running in the general. Here, I think campaigning in the general will be the easy part. The hard part? Winning the Democratic nomination. There’s a reason he did not run as a Democrat in NYC’s mayoral races. There’s no way he could have gotten that nomination.


27 posted on 11/08/2019 2:28:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Is it official that he’s announced his intentions?


28 posted on 11/08/2019 2:28:38 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Zhang Fei

On the issues, he’s way, way left on all the issues they support. Abortion, gun control, immigration, climate change, taxes, environment, gay agenda, etc.

He’s a more civilized, better dressed Bernie Sanders with $52 Billion. Can he convince the left to vote for an old white billionaire? He’s smart and articulate, but not really inspiring. Can he fire up the base, who’s first instinct is to hate rich white men?


29 posted on 11/08/2019 2:29:27 PM PST by ETCM
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To: MagUSNRET

It’s how he won Mayor of NYC, as a Republican.


30 posted on 11/08/2019 2:29:33 PM PST by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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To: Zhang Fei

All Trump has to do is bring forward all the small business owners this piece of sh— fined out of business with his brownshirts. Newstands, hotdog vendors fined $1000 for things like not producing their license fast enough or the newstand fined $25,000 for each 2 inch cigarette lighter that was shaped like a gun. Yes he did that.


31 posted on 11/08/2019 2:30:07 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Zhang Fei

I like it. Every dollar wasted on his futile presidential campaign is one less dollar available for gun control.


32 posted on 11/08/2019 2:30:50 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: DannyTN

Rules don’t apply to the left.


33 posted on 11/08/2019 2:31:34 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: Zhang Fei

The bozo’s gonna spend billions to try to get Americans to ban large soft drinks? Good luck with that.


34 posted on 11/08/2019 2:33:02 PM PST by LouieFisk (https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/16/trump-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan-dont-be-a-foo)
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To: Zhang Fei

His position on the Second Amendment is absolutely disgusting and perverted. I’d almost vote for Mitt Romney first.


35 posted on 11/08/2019 2:33:34 PM PST by AlaskaErik
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To: Alberta's Child

Wait. We don’t get a first lady with Bloomie? At least we got a beard with 0.


36 posted on 11/08/2019 2:33:40 PM PST by xp38
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To: Larry Lucido
He’ll bury the other dems and then go nowhere.

that is perfectly fine with me.

37 posted on 11/08/2019 2:33:53 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: NativeSon

We’ll see. I bet Alabama and Arkansas democrats won’t take kindly to some NY yankee come lately trying to bend the rules no matter how rich he is.


38 posted on 11/08/2019 2:34:29 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Buckeye McFrog
".... nowhere near close to anywhere Liberal enough to suit them...."

Well, he wants take our guns away and 32 oz. sugary drinks.

There's that.

39 posted on 11/08/2019 2:34:35 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Zhang Fei

LOL, are we going the Roman way, the end of the empire? Who wants to be the next Caesar, its up for sale to the highest bidder. He can buy a car for anyone who wants to vote for him. There will be huge lines on election Day if he does. No Dem. can pass up free stuff!


40 posted on 11/08/2019 2:34:40 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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