Michael Bloomberg 2020 campaign megathread

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All these billionaires should just go away.

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What I fear is that he uses his unsuccessful primary run as a springboard to run as an independent in the general and we get four more years of Trump.

Bloomberg donated like 100,000,000 to democrats in 2018. He aint running third party.

He also held a fundraiser for Republican congressman Peter King in 2018, so I think we have reason to be wary of Bloomberg.

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Apparently Bloomberg will not contest the four early states and plans to start his campaign on Super Tuesday:

https://twitter.com/michaelscherer/status/1192929806704402433

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The only logical reason for making this move is if he thinks Biden will perform terribly in the first four states so much that he'll drop out, and Bloomberg will take Biden's place in the moderate lane. That seems unlikely to happen, though.

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Bloomberg is going on air in the West Palm Beach Market (where Mar-a-Lago is located) over Thanksgiving:

https://twitter.com/MediumBuying/status/1197891008446566410

I believe these will be his first TV ads.

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Having tons of money means nothing if you don't have a natural constituency that you can cobble together to win the nomination (the fiscally centrist, urban professional crowd that Bloomberg most appeals to makes up a small share of the primary electorate, and he's not even guaranteed to win that demographic). Bloomberg has a <1% chance of winning the nomination.

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I hope he gets done in by the other candidates on the debate stage.

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Sanders supporters: beat the sh-t out of dissenters and shoot the rich
Trump supporters: beat the sh-t out of dissenters and kick out all the Mexicans
Good and smart-brained moderates: these are the same thing

Fixed it for you. I've received many, many death threats from Sanders supporters since 2016, telling me I deserve to be shot during the "revolution," fantasizing about murdering my family, and accusing me of everything under the sun. And lets not forget the leftist blackshirt gangs that vandalized DC in January 2017.

My god, I'm so sorry people were mean to you on the internet and people in real life don't want a fascist American dictator to keep kids in cages at the border. How dreadful.

A reminder: the internet is not real life.

And yet, #BernieOrBust is a thing

Most Bernie or Busters don't want those things, either.

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Sanders supporters: beat the sh-t out of dissenters and shoot the rich
Trump supporters: beat the sh-t out of dissenters and kick out all the Mexicans
Good and smart-brained moderates: these are the same thing

Fixed it for you. I've received many, many death threats from Sanders supporters since 2016, telling me I deserve to be shot during the "revolution," fantasizing about murdering my family, and accusing me of everything under the sun. And lets not forget the leftist blackshirt gangs that vandalized DC in January 2017.

My god, I'm so sorry people were mean to you on the internet and people in real life don't want a fascist American dictator to keep kids in cages at the border. How dreadful.

A reminder: the internet is not real life.

And yet, #BernieOrBust is a thing

Most Bernie or Busters don't want those things, either.

How do you expect to defeat Trump then if you refuse to vote for another Democrat? It's delusional to believe the Greens or Libertarians will ever come close to winning a GE.

People who vote Green or Libertarian are hardly guaranteed to vote for a Democrat if they are devoid of their preferred party's candidate on the ballot. And given our antiquated EC system, third-party votes have no impact outside of swing states.

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Sanders supporters: beat the sh-t out of dissenters and shoot the rich
Trump supporters: beat the sh-t out of dissenters and kick out all the Mexicans
Good and smart-brained moderates: these are the same thing

Fixed it for you. I've received many, many death threats from Sanders supporters since 2016, telling me I deserve to be shot during the "revolution," fantasizing about murdering my family, and accusing me of everything under the sun. And lets not forget the leftist blackshirt gangs that vandalized DC in January 2017.

My god, I'm so sorry people were mean to you on the internet and people in real life don't want a fascist American dictator to keep kids in cages at the border. How dreadful.

A reminder: the internet is not real life.

And yet, #BernieOrBust is a thing

Most Bernie or Busters don't want those things, either.

How do you expect to defeat Trump then if you refuse to vote for another Democrat? It's delusional to believe the Greens or Libertarians will ever come close to winning a GE.

People who vote Green or Libertarian are hardly guaranteed to vote for a Democrat if they are devoid of their preferred party's candidate on the ballot. And given our antiquated EC system, third-party votes have no impact outside of swing states.

If you refuse to vote for the Democratic nominee this election, and Trump wins a second term, you'll be just as responsible for the next four years as his supporters were.

My third-party vote in Solid D Illinois would have no impact on Trump getting reelected.

And if Bloomberg has to worry about that many third-party defections, then clearly he's not the electoral juggernaut people are making him out to be.

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Bloomberg bought three minutes of primetime ad time this Sunday to deliver a "Leadership in Crisis" address:

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1233845495627440128