[RightGeek]

More wacko Bernie details at the link.

[kiryandil]

This is how you get the Bernie Bros to check out of the Democrat Party vote this November.

Good job, Mini Mike!

[crz]

Anybody got a good line on popcorn?

My supplier ran out.

[Zhang Fei]

Bloomberg’s path to the nomination involves coming in at #2 or #3, getting past the first ballot and then buying everyone else’s delegates out. So his strategy is to be as inoffensive as possible to his rivals, with a single exception. That exception is Sanders, whom he can and must burn to the ground, in order to hold Sanders’s delegate count down, and make his own path to a majority easier.

The best shot for Bloomberg’s path to the nomination consists of him getting the #2 spot, delegate-wise, after Sanders, buying off all the Dem also-rans, and prevailing on the second ballot. If he doesn’t get the #2 slot, things become a lot harder, because whomever is #2 is going to think of himself not merely as a kingmaker but a potential nominee, and therefore less likely to give up his delegates to Bloomberg.

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https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_delegate_rules,_2020
[The 2020 Democratic presidential nominee will be selected by delegates to the Democratic National Convention, which will be held July 13-16, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The national nominating convention is the formal ceremony during which the party officially selects its nominee. The delegates are individuals chosen to represent their state, territory, or Democrats Abroad at the convention.

In 2020, there will be 4,750 delegates: 3,979 pledged delegates and 771 automatic delegates—more commonly known as superdelegates.[1]

To win the Democratic nomination, a presidential candidate must receive support from a majority of the pledged delegates on the first ballot: 1,991 pledged delegates.[2][3] If the convention is contested and goes to a second ballot or more, automatic delegates will be able to vote and a candidate must receive majority support from all delegates: more than 2,375 votes.[4] Roughly two-thirds of the delegates will have been allocated by the end of March 2020. ]

[apillar]

I imagine there is TONS. Bernie has been avowed Socialist with 70 years worth of far left writings and other sketchy activity. I’m guessing Hillary had a lot of opposition research as well, but never needed to drop it on Bernie because she had the game rigged from the start.

[Trump.Deplorable]

Let them bash each other, very very nice

[trebb]

MiniMike is doing some of Trump’s work for him - along with the rest of the Dem candidates....Bernie is a symptom of how out of control the Dems have become and their own methodology of using the “chaos effect” is biting them....bigly as the chaos they have invoked is spreading through their ranks faster than the coronovirus in Wuhan...

[DouglasKC]

lol...Doomberg has been like a wrecking ball.

[Jaded]

Maybe so. But what they did to Trump, they are doing to their own. How funny. How pathetic.

[Londo Molari]

Maybe Mini-Mike is a sleeper cell Republican who will destroy the democrats from within — it was all a very elaborate plan conceived in smoke filled rooms in alien space craft at Area 51.

[sphinx]

It's worth noting that this came as a complete surprise to CNN. I can remember when "news" organizations did background reporting.

Oh, wait -- they still do if the target is a Republican, but I digress.

There is nothing in Bernie's background that will be of the slightest interest to the media. Which is why getting the word out will depend on oppo research and paid media. Which is why democrats want to restrict to the point of suppressing the ability of candidates and parties to engage in this kind of investigation and reporting, and leave the party line media as the gatekeepers of all the public is allowed to know.