I don't think there has been any discussion of Bloomberg running as a Dem - If he runs it will be as an independent. I never suggested otherwise. In fact, my whole premise was based upon the idea that if Bloomberg was able to win a couple of states as an independent, that could throw the race into the House.
Net results: Dems lose three big states they normally get. Dems lose several purple states, too.
You are assuming that Dems that did not want to vote for Hillary in the purple states would go to Trump. I think that is a dangerous assumption if you have another "Dem-lite" candidate in the race like Bloomberg. Remember that Trump has the highest unfavorables of anyone in the race. Give people a third option, and they may just take it...
This is all just a thought exercise, but if Bloomberg gets in, it could really shake up the race.
The Dems "believe" that Bloomberg entering the race will allow them to pick up squish Republican votes, *and* to triangulate either Clinton or Sanders against "the pair of fat cats".
Problem is, the Dem propaganda machine works best against relative unknowns (like Palin); and the Dem echo chamber works best when everyone in the press is singing the same tune, and the Republican candidate is either cowed, or thinks he's friends with them, like Admiral McCuck John McCain (to be distinguished from Mitch "Yertle The Turtle" McCuckold, who is also a Senator and has a similar name. McCain, during his Presidential run, had been reduced to carrying his own luggage, before the press befriended him...he believed he was going to be given a fair shake.
Trump, however, is totally different.
First, as Rush Limbaugh says, if the press didn't make you, they can't break you: Sarah Palin dropped out not due to the press but to knowingly frivolous lawsuits.
Second, Trump is under no delusion the press likes him, as his jilting of Megyn Kelly and the 6th (6th!!!) Republican "debate" shows(*) (#). Third, Trump is media savvy: he had his own TV show.
Fourth, and building on the 3rd, Trump has had NY Times Bestseller books "Art of the Deal" (IIRC) and a hit TV show; he's lived in Manhattan and his Florida home used to belong to E.F. Hutton. He's *known* to people.
Fifth, and building on the fourth, his rallies are drawing *thousands* of blue collar people in all geographic locations. He is very popular with non-college educated, and polls show him more popular with blacks and Hispanics than ANY other candidate.
Seriously, hang it up, troll. (*) This brings up two other points. First, if the debates are SO f'ing important for "the good of the country" how come the Dems only had 3, and they got buried on Saturday nights? How come Hillary got softball questions like "who is your favorite President" when she likely guilty of literally THOUSANDS of counts of felony level, systematic, wholesale, mishandling of government secrets ABOVE TOP SECRET, of using a private non-government server, and what looks like a private slush fund via her office as Secretary of State (not to mention Benghazi)?
(#) Trump has won ALL of them so far and has never relinquished the lead for what, 7 months now, once gaining it? This is not a cry for help or of fear.