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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is preparing to enter the 2020 Democratic primary despite saying earlier this year he would not run for president, according to the NYT. The billionaire environmentalist has been privately weighing a bid for the White House for weeks and has not yet made a final decision on whether to run, an adviser said. But in the first sign that he is seriously moving toward a campaign, Bloomberg has dispatched staffers to Alabama to gather signatures to qualify for the primary there. Though Alabama does not hold an early primary, it has a Friday deadline for candidates to formally enter the race.
AP adds that Bloomberg opens the door to a presidential run because the field of Democratic candidates is “not well positioned” to defeat Trump. It is unclear how further splitting the vote, especially if he ends up getting more of the centrist vote, will not virtually assure a Trump landslide victory in 2020 but we’ll leave that to the DNC to manipulate. For now, however, in what is shaping up as the best trade of the day, a bet on Michael Bloomberg is up 366% on PredictIt on the day.
A Bloomberg adviser said the former mayor has been privately mulling a White House bid for weeks and has not yet made a final decision.
As the NYT reports, “should Mr. Bloomberg proceed with a campaign, it could represent a seismic disruption in the Democratic race.” With his immense personal wealth, centrist views and close ties to the political establishment, he would present a grave and instantaneous threat to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has been struggling to raise money and assemble a ideologically moderate coalition.
But Mr. Bloomberg could also reshape the race in other ways, intensifying the Democrats’ existing debates about economic inequality and corporate power, and offering fodder to the party’s rising populist wing, led by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who contend that the extremely rich already wield far too much influence in politics. Mr. Bloomberg has repeatedly expressed discomfort with certain policies favored by both Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders.
Howard Wolfson, a close adviser to Mr. Bloomberg, said on Thursday that the former mayor viewed President Trump as an “unprecedented threat to our nation,” and noted Mr. Bloomberg’s heavy spending in the 2018 midterm elections and this week’s off-year races in Virginia. Mr. Bloomberg, he said, has grown uneasy about the existing trajectory of the Democratic primary.
“We now need to finish the job and ensure that Trump is defeated — but Mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that,” Mr. Wolfson said. “If Mike runs he would offer a new choice to Democrats built on a unique record running America’s biggest city, building a business from scratch and taking on some of America’s toughest challenges as a high-impact philanthropist.”
A former Republican who repeatedly explored running for president as an independent, Bloomberg registered as a Democrat ahead of the midterm elections last year. In his past flirtations with the presidency, Bloomberg has never before taken the step of filing to put his name on a state ballot.
While Bloomberg could still opt against running, even his preliminary steps toward a campaign may come as a blow to Joe Biden, who has been counting on strong support from centrist Democrats, traditional party donors and much of the business community to carry him forward in the race.
Elizabeth Warren, for one, was quick to welcome Mayor Mike to the race:
Welcome to the race, @MikeBloomberg! If you're looking for policy plans that will make a huge difference for working people and which are very popular, start here: https://t.co/6UMSAf90NT
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 7, 2019
And while we await for the official documents to be filed, we wonder what Mike’s political platform will be: free Bloomberg terminals for everyone, or the slogan “Billionaires Trillionaires should not exist.”
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He should absolutely jump in.
I am especially fond of the way he unbuttons his top shirt button and pretends to smile. So natural, so genuine.
A real man of the people.
The world split in two for a billion women today.
Every man who suffered #metoo was just told it was a lie.
I hope everyone has a talk with their womenfolk tonight.
Keep enemies close and your “friends” closer.
Gross. Now watching Tulsi do that…
https://afterwords.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5551251ee88340120a644403d970b-600wi
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
This Bloomberg fellow has it all:
– Jewish (Natch.)
– Billionaire (It takes a few shekels to get the job done, goy.)
– New Yorker (The Cuomos are orgasming at the thought of it.)
– Liberal (As in Marxist-Socialism for the Lumpen and Central Committee & Politburo positions for his crony billionaire buddies.)
– Media magnate (Freedom of the press exists for those who own it.)
With a C.V. like that he really could be The AntiChrist.
Who pulled their pants down today?
One side or the other or both?
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/when-general-grant-expelled-the-jews/
Don’t forget anti-freedom piece of shit.
He favors a wall and having it paid for by another country.
Anon
Bloomberg’s entry basically says the rest of them are sure losers. So he’ll spread that message while failing to get the nomination himself.
This is the fucking weirdest political time in forever. The current officeholder has an approval rate around 42%, but he’d probably still beat all of his would-be challengers…if he doesn’t get impeached.
I believe it runs a little deeper than that.
https://nypost.com/2011/11/30/bloomberg-calls-nypd-his-own-army-during-mit-speech/
Because there aren’t enough freedom-hating assholes in the race already? What, has someone not suggesting confiscating or banning something close to his heart, or taxing or stealing something close to someone else’s heart?
A lie retold steals more than any theft.
The freedom-hating assholes need to be reminded the Second Amendment never had anything to do with hunting. If doing so makes them angry enough to waste millions of dollars losing elections it’s still a “win” for normal people.
I’m not gettin’ it.
America’s already been bled dry.
Lost common sense and lost money can be replaced.
Your own free thought and integrity cannot be replaced.
The War between the States need not be fought again.
What did I tell the board?
That they can’t stop talking, when they should be listening.
Anything beyond the second sentence need not be read.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH65rJSXYAEL0Xd
All you need to know is this breed of socialist vampire isn’t satisfied until every last drop is gone and there’s nothing else left to drain. It doesn’t stop with billionaires and millionaires, it rolls downhill onto the Little People in flyover country until they’re penniless or dead.
Preferably dead.
They want the land and resources of the people who live in Flyover Country. They also know that to get it that they have to get rid of the people who absolutely despise them, and they don’t care how they do it. They’re very open about it. That’s why they want to make cars so expensive that people can’t buy them.
You know the (((Deep State Intelligentsia))) must be really getting desperate when they’re openly running one of their own for President. I suppose they have accepted the fact that the cucks who normally do their dirty work behind the curtains aren’t real reliable candidates who all have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected right now.
“the field of Democratic candidates is “not well positioned” to defeat Trump. ”
What positions are they jockeying for? Why, behind him, of course.
Bent over, with a raging hard on.
Even Lizard Warren, with a strap-on..
*********
Mr. Wolfson said. “If Mike runs he would offer a new choice to Democrats built on a unique record running America’s biggest city…”
You mean shitty, son of a Wolf.
NYC, like LA, San Franshitsco, Portland, Shitcago, etc. ought not be able to make policy for the rest of the Nation.
Bloomberg?
Get in line, Michael-come-lately.
Dilute the field even further.
And spend like the rich dick that you are.
No super sized soft drinks for your campaign rallies, though.
New York wanted to ban that option choice.
Which, in reality, isn’t that bad of an idea, if the goal is the stop enabling Large Marge progressive libs from stuffing yet more lb.’s into a pair of XL spandex beneath the knit pussy hat wearing activists, fighting back type II diabetes, a drain on healthcare costs. Win-win.
Maybe Mike will encourage a national policy of dousing cops with water and garbage as a means of Resist, like NYC.
Hell, if rags to riches qualifies and he wins their nomination, he could shag Oprah for VP.
Oh, the humanity.
I’m confused here, the AP reports that none of the current Democratic candidates is “not well positioned to defeat Trump…”
This is the same AP that daily reports how Trump would be beaten in a one on one with any of the Democratic candidates by a large margin.
How can those two opinions be simultaneously true?
Just ignore the Law of Non-Contradiction. A is A is not A could be A ought to be A maybe a little bit of A perhaps someday A oy vey A. Aristotle is spinning in his grave.
I ask rhetorically.
Every statement they make they treat as if it were the truth because it supports whatever point they happen to be making in the moment, not because it is a descriptor of reality.
To people who lie habitually they cannot sense the way in which people like you or I consider them. If we do not agree with whatever point they are making or lie they are telling it is not the lie that is the problem, it’s us for not supporting their agenda. That is the gravest sin.
you ask too many questions,do you need a few weeks at a re education camp?
HF- Look at Tuesday’s election results. They will be so bold as to go straight to a tribal member. Not that it really matters.