Bloomberg builds momentum on Capitol Hill with new endorsements

[RandySF]

Mike Bloomberg has spent years building relationships — and political capital — with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. He's now drawing on those contacts to build momentum for his unorthodox Democratic presidential run.

Establishment Democrats in Congress are buzzing about the former New York City mayor and wealthy business titan, whose late entry into the White House race and pledge to spend as much as $1 billion of his personal fortune to defeat Donald Trump has thrown a wild card into the party’s crowded primary.

On Wednesday, Bloomberg landed endorsements from a trio of Congressional Black Caucus members — Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Lucy McBath (D-Ga.), and Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) — just a day after he came under fire for a 2015 recording of him defending the controversial policing policy known as stop and frisk, used in New York when he was mayor.

On Thursday, House Ethics Committee Chairman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) jumped on the Bloomberg bus. The 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took place in Deutch’s district, and he said Bloomberg’s fight against gun violence helped win his support just a day before the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting.


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482953-bloomberg-builds-momentum-on-capitol-hill-with-endorsements

[calguy]

1. Bloomberg keeps checking more of the right boxes

[jmg257]

2. "Check" being the key word. Yay $$$!

[calguy]

3. That too

You ain't wrong.