Posted on 02/19/2020 10:35:25 AM PST by Mariner
Mike Bloomberg's campaign is sounding the alarm that Bernie Sanders will soon amass an unsurmountable delegate lead if the Democratic field stays split — and took the extraordinary step of suggesting laggards should drop out.
What they're saying: Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg's top strategist, said: "The fact is if the state of this race remains status quo — with Biden, Pete and Amy in the race on Super Tuesday — Bernie is likely to open up a delegate lead that seems nearly impossible to overcome."
"I don’t think many people understand the dire circumstances here."
Why it matters: Based on every national poll, plus steady access to money, Sanders is the indisputable — if underappreciated — frontrunner.
The Bloomberg campaign got high-profile validation of its theory:
David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, tweeted in response to Nate Silver's delegate projections through Super Tuesday — which show Sanders with 41%, followed by Bloomberg and Joe Biden with 18% each. "If this happens, Sanders would have a pledged delegate lead he’ll never relinquish."
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Interesting to see who the superdelegates were in 2016 and how so few supported Bernie, most all supported Hillary. Click on the sate to see who they are and who they supported. Hillary probably still controls many superdelegates and not a one will vote for Bernie. https://ballotpedia.org/Superdelegates_and_the_2020_Democratic_National_Convention
Pipsqueak talks...
...no one listens.
Best scenario would be Bernie getting 40-45%, everybody else give delegates to Bloomberg and cheat Bernie out of the nomination, chaos, anger, BernieBots upset and stay home.
I guess 2Bcan buy quite a few delegates.
We all know Mitt’s a RINO. But with all the flips and flops of the Bloom’n idiot is he a DINO?
Go Bernie!!
Show this fake, half-baked, wanna-be, communist control freak, Mikey Mouse what a real communist can do. Go Bernie!!! We’re rooting for ya to take all the RAT communist marbles.
“...We all know Mitt’s a RINO. But with all the flips and flops of the Bloom’n idiot is he a DINO?....”
Naaaa. They’re both AINOs: American In Name Only.
What dire circumstances? Bernie manages to gain the nomination, goes on to face Trump, and in classic economic fashion, the good economy wins over the “social injustice” view of the world, and Trump stays in office.
Mike Bloomberg just blew several billion in a vanity show, a little bit of grandstanding, but he won’t go on to miss any meals.
I've seen a lot of his ads in Colorado and they seem pretty lame. Mike wants everyone to know he can get "it" done, whatever that is.
The Dems will cheat like mad this year. If Sanders wins it will completely divide the country. Some of us will not abide a socialist transformation of our government. They think Antifa is bad, just wait.
I’m convinced Mini Mike is their designated loser.
And they keep saying that it’s President Trump who’s afraid.
“So, isn’t this the idea of having a primary, selecting a winner?”
Apparently, not with the DNC elites.
They don’t want voters like us and their dummies voting to determine who, our president candidates should be.
I've seen the ads too; they're standard political boilerplate. Reminds me of "Jeb Can Fix It," which of course he couldn't.
It’s also called the doctrine of diminishing returns where the amount earned for each additional unit invested yields progressively fewer returns. This is really strong in Bloomie’s case since so much has already been dumped on PDJT a bit more really just adds to the noise. Then there’s a massive irritation factor with the Bloomie commercials just turning a lot of people off by their sheer volume and inescapable ubiquity. Indeed, that could be happening now in CA where Bernie is leading Bloomie in the latest poll.
Its looking like Bernie is going to win. He got the most votes in Iowa, won New Hampshire, leads in Nevada and leads in California. Money is great and all but its not enough to win a campaign all by itself. The Bernie Bros have all the energy.
I think if Bernie went to the convention with 45% of all delegates, they would have no choice but to give it to him. But if it were say 32%, even if that were still a plurality, I think they’d give it to a player to be named later.
Or to fetch sandwiches...
Bernie did not kill himself, after a big Super Tuesday harvest of delegates...
He had been given a dire warning.
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