Rules do not apply to Democrats.
[Rules do not apply to Democrats.]
It would perhaps be better for Bloomberg if he had not been asked to join the debates. But to refuse an invitation would have reeked of cowardice. Is Trump worse off for having canceled routine press conferences, where journalists got to editorialize at his expense? Bottom line is that being in the debates increases the chance that Bloomberg will say something off-message that negatively affects his campaign that his avalanche of ads and armies of GOTV workers will never do. In other words, being in the debates is a poisoned chalice.