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myohmy2

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Fri Nov 8, 2019, 09:36 AM Nov 2019

Is the billionaire class scared and trying to buy this election? [View all]

Elizabeth Warren, yesterday,

" Ms. Warren, who has sparred from afar with Mr. Bloomberg over her proposals to tax the extremely rich, issued a blistering fund-raising message calling his potential candidacy “another example of the wealthy wanting our government and economy to only work for themselves.” Campaigning in North Carolina on Thursday evening, Ms. Warren offered a restrained comment on Mr. Bloomberg and cast her candidacy as a “grass roots movement.”


“It’s not enough just to have somebody come in, anybody, and say they’re going to buy this election,” she said. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-president-2020.html
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Bernie Sanders,

"The billionaire class is scared and they should be scared.

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" "More billionaires seeking more political power surely isn't the change America needs," Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir told The Hill in a statement on Thursday. "
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Is the billionaire class scared and trying to buy this election?

...I'd say, yes...

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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