10 straight minutes of Bloomberg on MSNBC. He has the machine, he's checking the boxes

[jmg257]

He's apologizing, and bringing out/getting past his issues NOW.
He's close to Biden on AA support
Getting endorsements
Owed a lot of favors money can buy
Picking up the younger voters (MEME deluge)
Smacking trump around already on social media and ads

He can beat trump...

Gonna be very hard to beat.

[Happyhippychick]

1. For the first time in my life and hopefully the last, I'm a one issue voter

and the issue is to beat Trump, and Bloomberg is the person to do that.

[jmg257]

2. Agreed - gonna be very hard to argue that point. Might be another rich ass,

but at least he seems to be on our side!


One week point maybe - If he avoids debates, he'd likely miss out on those typical follow-up surges.

[dem4decades]

3. Should Bloomberg run ads in SC suggesting a write In campaign?

[jmg257]

4. Ha,never thought of that. He is running his Obama ad there, and made a nice donation

to SC Dems.

[brooklynite]

5. No - I worked on a write-in campaign; they're highly impractical

[Amimnoch]

6. He's going hard at Trump and only Trump. That's the box for me. Bloomberg 2020!

[WhereAmerica]

7. Headline in Wash. Examiner: " 'They should be terrified': Republicans fear Bloomberg as Biden fades"

“I’m afraid of Bloomberg and Bloomberg only. He is the only one that is not a socialist, has experience, and is double-barrel loaded,” said a Republican operative based in the Heartland." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/they-should-be-terrified-republicans-fear-bloomberg-as-biden-fades

Why is Bloomberg the only one this Repug operative fears?

--He's the key person in the gun control movement, having founded Everytown for Safety and backed many gun control candidates
--He's big-time involved in fighting climate change, having recently ponied up half a billion dollars to shut down the remaining coal-fired power plants in the U.S.
--His top priority is income inequality.
--His civil rights record is strong, and he's backed by dozens of African American legislators and leaders, including his campaign co-chair, ex-Black Panther and current Congressman Bobby Rush.

But, most importantly for the Repug machine, he will use his massive fortune to blast them out of the water.

Biden, Mayor Pete, Klobuchar, Warren: nice and decent people, decent politics, but their campaigns will be outspent by at least 300-500%, and that's just the Trump machine we can see. The Russians and other foreign efforts will increase that advantage massively. Trump's organization has built a huge Disinformation Machine, targeted at social media, that will make 2016 seem like a walk in the park.
I originally wanted Harris, but she's out, and then Warren, but she's toast.

Bernie? He's definitely moved the Overton Window left, which is great, and I wish things were different, but it's obvious: he will be an utter disaster. Within a week of his being nominated, he will be branded a Communist and tied to the Soviet Union and Castro -- partly b/c there is video of him praising those countries' systems. A tiny sliver of the voters will know he means Finland's socialism, not Stalin's. His organization is no match for Trump's and Russia's. He hasn't gotten much of a youth vote boost in Iowa or New Hampshire, so forget about a massive outpouring of young voters. Sanders as the nominee will mean not only four more years of Trump and possibly losing more seats in the Senate, but probably loss of the House. And branding of the Democrats for years as Communists/Socialists.

In other words, goodbye democracy.

Maybe in 20 or 30 years, when those now under 30 years old are 50 and 60, a self-proclaimed Socialist can win, when they're not up against the biggest and most corrupt right-wing American machine in history. But not now. There is no question that Bernie is a major, extinction-level disaster.

The only question is who can win against the Trump juggernaut. A Bloomberg-Stacey Abrams or a Bloomberg-Kamala Harris ticket would be awesome, and is the likely combo if Bloomberg is the nominee. Either of that ticket will take the momentum we've been building and probably win the Senate, increase the house, and blast a tidal wave as they win the White House.

And only Bloomberg can match and beat the resources and organization thrown against us. Yes, it totally sucks that we're reliant on a billionaire, but, until the election finance laws are fixed -- a priority for Bloomberg -- we have to bring a F-15 to the gun fight. And only Bloomberg can.

[jmg257]

8. Nice post - thanks! nt

[stopbush]

9. I've been saying Bloomberg/Harris for weeks.

It’s a natural, and a winning ticket.

[forthemiddle]

18. I see absolutely no geographic appeal with Harris

An election with a New York and a California candidate just doesn’t make sense. We are winning both States by a landslide, it makes much more sense to pick someone from the Midwest.

I think Klobuchar a much better VP choice. Make Harris the Attorney General.

[stopbush]

19. Unlike Amy, Kamala hasn't voted for tRump's judicial appointees.

Kamala is black. That helps with the black female vote.

[squirecam]

10. Let's see him at the NV debate

Nt

[jmg257]

12. Well the rules were changed so he could qualify...lets see if he decides to take part!

[Kaleva]

11. He's getting the free media coverage that Trump got in 2016

[uponit7771]

13. One outlier poll does not make a trend and Bloomberg has not apologized for racial profiling he said

... it was "overused" vs shouldn't be used at all.

[jmg257]

14. Yes, he did apologize for stop and frisk...last night in Houston

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg used a rally at Houston’s Buffalo Soldiers National Museum to tell a predominately black audience that he “deeply regrets” ever supporting the controversial stop and frisk policy he employed while mayor of New York City.
Bloomberg told the audience that he knows now he was wrong to defend the policy that targeted black and Hispanic residents for pat downs to see if they had weapons. That program has become a major stumbling block for many Democratic voters as they weigh Bloomberg’s run for the White House.

“I should have acted sooner and faster to stop it, and for that I apologize,” said Bloomberg, who was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Mike-Bloomberg-uses-Houston-rally-to-apologize-15055626.php

With seemingly constant media coverage, keeps him front and center.

[uponit7771]

15. S&F is not racial profiling, they're even two sets of different words and he didn't apologize

... for it he said it was "overused" vs not should have been used at all.

[jmg257]

16. Ah - gotcha what was his policy/actions re: racial profiling, if not S &F? Ediit: is it this stuff?

But in his 2015 speech, the former mayor argued that a heavy police presence in minority neighborhoods was necessary to curb violent crime, and suggested that higher minority arrest rates for minor crimes like marijuana possession was an acceptable consequence of that effective strategy.

etc.?

[uponit7771]

17. S&F is legal and we should all support it I do as a black person. Bloomberg supported stopping ...

... people because of their skin color is the issue and that's what he was sued for multiple times and lost.

Bloomberg even gave some overtly racist reasoning for stopping blacks and Hispanics

Bloomberg is allowed to conflate the two because the lazy assed M$M isn't pounding him on the issue.

America deserves more than slightly better than Trump on issues.

[jmg257]

20. Thank you! nt