I think mini-Mike Bloomberg will buy the nomination. Bernie supporters may stay home, but some will say, “Well, at least he wants to take their guns and kill the unborn.”
not sure.
this is the crew that are pretty radical. they may feel too much outrage at the Dem Ruling party screwing over their man two times in a row.
Bloomberg may be able to buy the nomination in a brokered convention. Bloomberg has already somehow been able to get the DNC to change the rules to let him into the debates.
He has already spent a fortune in advance to buy up TV ad spots. The other candidates running against him don’t have such ready cash and when they need to buy ads in the future will find Bloomberg has locked up nearly all the available space.
If they go to a brokered convention, Bloomberg can promise the party the moon and the stars - billions of dollars for adverts, for the PACs, the DCCC, for the party, for get out the vote “walkaround money” etc. It would be hard for the Superdelegates to ignore that; and if necessary that would be a ton of pressure on the other candidates to throw their delegates to him if needed.
Aside: Someone mentioned here recently that Biden may have only really been running to give legitimacy to the whole impeachment narrative “Trump tried to interfere with the campaign”. He did not run in 2016 and how often does a sitting VP choose not to run? You could argue that in 2016 he didn’t think he could beat Hillary - she had loads of support and resigned the SoS office 2 years earlier to fund raise - basically soaking up all the cash people were going to donate. She got the jump on everyone. Bernie’s support came from mostly small donors - hers came mostly from large donors and bundlers (and finagled a way to keep 90%+ of donations to the state parties in a loophole to avoid campaign finance laws). Point being, Bloomberg has the resources to get the state parties very active whereas Hillary sort of gutted their resources.
The larger the field the better for Trump. He feeds on all the idiots that come up against him the fresh material makes it fun.