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.
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The very best part of all of this hoopla???
EVERY single dollar that Bloomberg spends:
hotels
airline flights
printing
rental of venues
TV ads
Print ads
polling
offices in every state & many cities
EVERY dollar will INCREASE the economy of Trump’s America
Then, Bloomberg will lose—either the actual Dem nomination or the General Election.
Voters don’t like to see such obnoxious snobbery on display. I wonder if he will have the guts to show up at any of his rallies with Greek Columns???
I also don’t think Bloomie can PAY enough people to fill his venues like Trump fills & OVERFLOWS his rallies.
I LOVE IT!!!
If it takes 70 million voters to win and he is willing to spend $50 billion that is $714 per voter.
B-BURG will upset that dem primary bigly. Can’t wait for the fall out.
Spend it all, Mikey! If you spend every last dime, we promise we’ll vote for you!
“ + a couple of hundred billion in free advertisement from the alphabet media.”
Trump got the free advertising, and his name mentioned a lot (at first mockingly, then with ever increasing derision as his threat became apparent). Clinton got royal red carpet treatment, with breathless reporters having their tongues so far up her @ss, they were french kissing
Paint and Warren are more exciting than Bloomberg.
The typical rich New York foreigner sez: how much to buy your Yankee imperialist America and enslave your people?
That’s a great idea! Bet it all! ;D
Bring out the memes! Don’t forget this one!
He’s very shortly descended from Russia and Belarus. Looks like the Soviets are finally trying to carry out those old threats.
I find it very hard to see how Doomberg is going to create any excitement for his candidacy, regardless of how much money he may burn. It may be the Jeb Bush campaign writ large. In Jeb’s case about $100 million for 3 delegates. In Doomberg’s case, how many delegates can he buy for $5-10 billion?
that’s what I see. Everyone ends up broke including the DNC and the DCCC.
In steps Hillary. She again saves the DNC then goes mano a mano with Bloomie or gets the convention brokered.
Yes, he’s the chameleon candidate. Always flipping from one party to another.
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