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Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:46 PM Feb 2020

Don't look back, Bernie -- Bloomberg is gaining on you [View all]

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman published an opinion column under the following sub-headline:
“Democrats need to nominate the right person to prevent Trump from winning a second term.”

Just above that, Friedman’s main headline made it perfectly clear who he thinks the “right person” to beat President Trump is:
“Paging Mike Bloomberg.”

“In an age when political extremists go all the way, and moderates tend to just go away, Bloomberg has the right stuff — a moderate progressive with a heart of gold but the toughness of a rattlesnake — for what is going to be an incredibly big, brutal task,” Friedman argued, dismissing Sanders as a nonstarter.

“On which planet in the Milky Way galaxy is an avowed ‘socialist’ … going to defeat the Trump machine this year?” Friedman wrote.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dont-look-back-bernie-bloomberg-is-gaining-on-you-215407290.html

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