Bloomberg Campaign Hints at Damaging Sanders Info

[RandySF]

Bloomberg campaign manager Kevin Sheekey tweets: “The opposition research on Bernie Sanders could fill Donald Trump’s empty Foxconn facility in Wisconsin.”

“It is very damaging, perhaps even disqualifying.”



https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/18/bloomberg-campaign-hints-at-damaging-sanders-info/

[msongs]

1. not this again nt

[Perseus]

3. Yeap, it seems that it it is not going to stop

We are eating our own...horrible!

[Callado119]

2. If they have the goods they need to release it now...

...no matter what the consequences..

[Perseus]

4. No matter what the consequences????

Really????

[hamsterjill]

5. This just pisses me off.

For once could the Democrats just get their shit together and run on policy and not smear one another? We just don’t need this.

[emmaverybo]

9. Only one campaign is putting out this particular claim, yes? Or are other campaigns? Honestly, I

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don’t know or how official it is.

[hamsterjill]

11. Only Bloomberg is doing this specific thing.

But as the race tightens, I've seen more and more disparagement between the candidates. Which, I guess, they have to do to some extent to set themselves apart. But we all need to remember that, at the end of the day, there's going to be ONE candidate standing who we will all need to fall in line and support.

I think it's hard to believe that great animosity can so easily be set aside, so I think it would be better if they didn't sling too much at one another.

Does anyone really believe that Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham said all of those things about Donald Trump and now REALLY believe he's a great president? (Sarcasm, of course).

[jrthin]

6. The thing is, "if" this info exist, we should assume that 45's team

also has it.

[emmaverybo]

7. This kind of thing gives me pause about any candidate. The implication can be so much worse

than the reality. Leaving a question mark hanging over a fellow liberal’s candidacy, such an ominous question mark, bothers me.

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. Why am I reminded of Trump needing Ukraine to publically announce an investigation into the Bidens

without it mattering whether they would actually follow through and turn up anything?

[emmaverybo]

10. I see a similarity.

[DanTex]

12. Scary!

Link to tweet

[ehrnst]

15. Scary how much things can change in three days....

Oppo or false smears?

For the second day in a row, Briahna Joy Gray — the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign — backtracked on a baseless claim about Michael Bloomberg.

Gray gave an interview to CNN on Wednesday, where she claimed that the former New York City mayor “has suffered heart attacks in the past.” This came as Gray defended Sanders’ refusal to release his complete medical records, drawing a comparison between birtherism and the “smear campaign” from those who’ve raised concerns about the senator’s health since his heart attack last year.

There’s no proof Bloomberg ever had “heart attacks” as Gray claimed, though Bloomberg “did undergo a stent procedure in 2000 after Mr. Bloomberg complained of discomfort and tiredness,” according to the Bloomberg-friendly source who spoke to the New York Times in 2007.

Gray got on Twitter after her interview to acknowledge this fact and admit she “misspoke” about Bloomberg
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This comes a day after Gray falsely claimed on CNN that 64 sexual assault allegations have been made against Bloomberg. Sexual harassment claims have been made against Bloomberg’s company. Gray has said she “misspoke” about this as well.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bernie-sanders-spokesperson-releases-second-correction-in-two-days-about-mike-bloomberg/

[jmg257]

13. Lol - sounds like Bolton and all his sprinkles...

Weeee'llll Seeee!

[democrattotheend]

16. Then put it out there already!

People have been hinting at this for 4 years. Whatever anyone has, on any Democratic candidate, should come out now while we still have the chance to consider it in deciding whom to nominate. This goes for all the candidates, not just Bernie. Stop teasing damaging info and start running ads with it so either it'll stop an unelectable candidate from getting the nomination and/or everything will be old news to voters by November.

[Mike 03]

17. It will be strange seeing the Bloomberg campaign use this in a pre-emptive

strike, since I think most of us expected Trump would be the one to use it.