Michael Bloomberg: I Am Not Worried About Their Criticism!

Bloomberg raising in the polls and now Trump and Bernie Sanders focus their attacks on him.

A billionaire entered the race late and managed to campaign states crucial to winning the presidency. Already the commercials are having an impact and its starting to make Republicans very nervous. So they're pushing the race card to distract Blacks who are dissatisfied with the field.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is gaining momentum and is looking to possibly become a viable threat to the Democratic Party field.

So far Black voters are starting to see him as the best choice to take on a classless, tasteless, racist like our dear leader.

Bloomberg has become a focus of ire from Donald J. Trump, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and their supporters.

Mini Mike is a 5’4” mass of dead energy who does not want to be on the debate stage with these professional politicians. No boxes please. He hates Crazy Bernie and will, with enough money, possibly stop him. Bernie’s people will go nuts!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2020

Mini Mike Bloomberg is a LOSER who has money but can’t debate and has zero presence, you will see. He reminds me of a tiny version of Jeb “Low Energy” Bush, but Jeb has more political skill and has treated the Black community much better than Mini! https://t.co/qIef5VhjDr

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2020

I'm surprised that someone running for the Democratic nomination thinks the economy would be better off if we just let banks be more overtly racist. We need to confront the shameful legacy of discrimination, not lie about it like Mike Bloomberg has done. https://t.co/Lzavpie7Iy

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 13, 2020

Bloomberg who served three terms as mayor of New York as a Republican and later as an independent supported the controversial New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy which targeted minorities in high crime neighborhoods.

The junk food media has been obsessed with the past statements of Bloomberg when he took over the city shortly after 9/11.

Well in 2015, Bloomberg then the leader of the Everytown for Gun Safety has discussed the policy at the Aspen Institute. He spoke favorable of the controversial policy.

When he launched his campaign in late 2019, he offered an apology for his support. He said as a Republican, he was supportive of "law and order" but resonates with the African American and Latino communities distrust with law enforcement due to this policy.

He said that the remarks "do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity."

Bloomberg has said that, "95%" of murders and murder victims are young male minorities and that "you can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to cops." To combat crime, he says, "put a lot of cops where the crime is, which means minority neighborhoods."

In the audio, he acknowledges that focusing police forces in minority neighborhoods means minorities are disproportionately arrested for marijuana possession but dismisses that as a necessary consequence. "Why we do it? Because that's where all the crime is," Bloomberg said.

And to "get the guns out of kids' hands," Bloomberg says, police must "throw 'em against the wall and frisk 'em."

"And they say, 'Oh, I don't want that. I don't wanna get caught.' So they don't bring the gun," he says.

Bloomberg blocked the release of the audio. But the reporter for the Aspen Times uploaded the full audio online and drew attention from Sanders' supporting agitator Benjamin Dixon.

Dixon who has a podcast has relentlessly called Bloomberg a "racist" because of the remarks in an attempt to generate support for Sanders.

Bloomberg is starting to look like a candidate that can appeal to both moderates and progressives.

He has so far ignored the Democratic rivals like Sanders and Warren. He's only focused his attention on Trump and has dished out insults directly at him.

.@realDonaldTrump - we know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you & call you a carnival barking clown. They know you inherited a fortune & squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.

I have the record & the resources to defeat you. And I will. https://t.co/fO4azmZaUg

— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) February 13, 2020

Mike Bloomberg: "[Trump] calls me 'little Mike.' And the answer is Donald, where I come from we measure your height from your neck up." pic.twitter.com/pr9k9qxVi0

— The Hill (@thehill) February 14, 2020

Bloomberg has ignored the Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire primaries. He set his sights on states like West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri.

I am going to say something about Bernie Sanders and his supporters. They are making harder for me to support him if he becomes the nominee. He is too polarizing for my standards.

The Democrats running for president all want to defeat Trump. Sanders and his supporters (i.e. Nina Turner, Shaun King, Benjamin Dixon, Linda Sarsour, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thom Hartmann, etc.) have became too focus on defeating the very middle that helped Democrats carry the states like Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

These states are white majority. They are older and more likely to support Trump if Sanders becomes the nominee. They aren't swayed to the radical positions that Sanders offers.

This Bernie supporters' behavior is not productive to the progressives and independents.

Sanders negatives are high. Because of him, Hillary Clinton lost. Many Democrats are not going to back a candidate who lost to the previous nominee. Sanders and Joe Biden have ran more than once. Folks, ain't into them. If Elizabeth Warren would stop taking shots at Bloomberg and Buttigieg, she could rise in the polls. Warren's attacks on billionaires have turned off progressives billionaires like Bill Gates, Tom Steyer, Warren Buffett, Andrew Yang and one of the reasons why Bloomberg entered the race.

Bloomberg is doing everything that is fair in politics. He is buying his way. If he can beat Trump, I'm down for it. Since Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris dropped out, the field just got weak. Bloomberg saw the writing on the wall.

That's why he's in the race.

The road to 2000 delegates has started. But I imagine that Bernie Sanders will play the victim if Bloomberg, Buttigieg or even Warren win the nomination. His supporters will try to taint the election and give Trump a smooth victory.

Trump has a 60% chance of winning reelection.

Bloomberg netted three U.S. Representatives. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) and Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA). McBath is the mother of Jordan Davis, the teen who was shot in Jacksonville by a white extremist over loud music. The three lawmakers aren't worried about the noise as many others in the Black community fret over.