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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Michael Bloomberg Wants To Battle!

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced his run because he said the field is weak.
Remember the popular vote doesn't mean shit. The popular vote doesn't make you the President of The United States. It's the electoral college. Even if Donald J. Trump fails to win the popular vote, he is already assured a second term based on the statistics. Trump already has Ohio and all he needs is the states he won in 2016 to stay in his corner.

If he captures Florida and continues his hold on Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan Pennsylvania and even take Minnesota, he will blow out the Democratic nominee.

By my closest estimate he already has 254 electoral votes with Ohio and Florida in his corner.

Trump has 58% chance of winning reelection.

With Beto O'Rourke out of the race, many Democrats are now trying to fill the shoes he wore.

Former New York mayor and business mogul Michael Rubens Bloomberg is now joining the race.

The former mayor of the largest city in the United States wants the country to know him. He is the owner of Bloomberg Enterprises.

Bloomberg is currently dating Diana Taylor. He was previously married to Susan Elizabeth Barbara Brown, a British national from Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

They had two daughters: Emma (born c. 1979) and Georgina (born 1983), who were featured on Born Rich, a documentary film about the children of the extremely wealthy. Bloomberg divorced Brown in 1993, but he has said she remains his "best friend."

Although he attended Hebrew school, had a Bar Mitzvah, and his family kept a kosher kitchen, Bloomberg today is relatively secular, attending synagogue mainly during the High Holidays.

Neither of his daughters were raised Jewish.

The billionaire joins a crowded field of candidates who want to get Trump out of office.




Considered one of the richest men in the world, Bloomberg enters the race already scrutinized by both Democrats and Trump alike. The 77-year old former Republican turned independent announced his official bid to run on Sunday.

He will quickly follow with a massive advertising campaign blanketing airways in key primary states across the country.

"I'm running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America," Bloomberg wrote.

"We cannot afford four more years of Trump's reckless and unethical actions," he continued. "He represents an existential threat to our country and our values. If he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage."

Bloomberg enters the race just shortly after Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor.

Should Democrats pick a nominee that is progressive? (Expect trolls to offer the dumbest answers and responses. This is an unscientific poll. We expect trolls here).

Yes. We should stop electing candidates who vote like Republicans. For years, progressives been told to be more to the middle. Republicans had no problem electing a candidate that is conservative. We should vote for candidates that support our causes.
No. We should be very cautious about being too progressive. There are still a portion of Americans who don't support progressive causes. Give it time. We can't allow conservatives to win but we can't turn off independents and moderates.
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Both feel that the field is weak. The purity test also has made it harder for Democrats to rally around a candidate. All of the candidates are flawed and their supporters vow to not support the nominee if they're not progressive. Bloomberg's late 2020 bid -- along with the money the billionaire can spend to fund his campaign -- injects a new level of uncertainty into the race less than three months before the first voting in the race begins. In the last several days there was little doubt he was running.

Bloomberg, who had said earlier this year that he would not run, reversed his decision because he doesn't think there's a candidate in the current field of Democrats who can beat Trump next November.

As a centrist, Bloomberg has ties to Wall Street. Many progressives are cautious about Bloomberg entering the race given his past history as a three term mayor of New York City. He has to energize a base that is already concerned the nominee will be clobbered by Trump and the misinformation peddling from his allies.

Forbes say that Bloomberg is roughly about $50 billion. Trump has at least $3 billion.

His ties to Wall Street will have Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren going after him for being a part of the system that hurts the middle class. They claim that Bloomberg (and Tom Steyer) are trying to buy the election.

CNN reports that Bloomberg is going to kick start his campaign by placing at least $37 million worth of television advertising over the next two weeks, according to data from Kantar Media/CMAG.

The ads highlight the mayor's biography -- "He could have just been the middle class kid ... but Mike Bloomberg became the guy who did good," said the ad -- and his post-mayoral work on combating climate change. Then the spot turns to Trump, saying now the mayor is "taking on him" as an image of Trump freezes on screen.

The spot ends with narrator saying "'Mike Bloomberg for President" with Bloomberg saying "I'm Mike Bloomberg and I approve this message."

Bloomberg's massive buy -- 60 second spots across some 100 markets -- will begin next week, representing more than the entire Democratic field has spent on TV advertising in the race so far, excluding businessman Tom Steyer, who will have aired nearly $63 million of TV ads by the end of Bloomberg's initial bookings.

A 77-year-old entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bloomberg made his fortune creating technology that bankers and traders use to access market data. After building a successful financial information business, he turned to politics. He officially launched a bid to become mayor of New York in 2001.

Despite running as a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Bloomberg won the election and was reelected twice. During this second term, he switched parties and became an independent -- only to re-register as a Democrat in 2018.

Because of his late entry, aides to the former mayor have said he won't compete in the first four voting contests, in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Instead, Bloomberg is staking his chances on an unconventional strategy of building support in the states that hold primaries on March 3, also known as Super Tuesday.

Bloomberg is running on the messages of returning the money back to the people. He wants to curb gun violence, acknowledge climate change, make peace in the Middle East and repeal Trump signed off legislation.

So far he will face criticism over his wealth, gun policies, his policies as New York City's mayor, his past positions as a Republican and why folks are cautious about him.

Ironic only two months ago, Bloomberg's successor as New York City's mayor, Bill de Blasio was in the race for president.



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