Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg visiting 'left behind' South Side to push 2020 j

[brooklynite]

Chicago Tribune

To illustrate his point, Bloomberg will visit the city’s South Side, home to large swaths of neighborhoods that have eroded for decades under a lack of public investment, little economic development, high unemployment, frequent bouts with high crime and, most recently, an ever-growing population loss. Many of those struggles stem from the city’s history of segregation and redlining on the predominantly African American South Side, but Bloomberg’s plan doesn’t address removing racial barriers that stand in the way of creating jobs and businesses. His campaign says that separate effort will be announced at a later date.

Instead, the philanthropic politician will highlight his plan to create an “All-In Economy,“ a proposal that lists a series of goals and initiatives aimed at better preparing an American workforce for an economy of the future, but does not ascribe a cost to any of the initiatives or identify how they would be funded.

“The reason I’m releasing this plan is one of the reasons I’m in the race: I know that our economy is working fine for people like me and people like Donald Trump, but it is badly broken for the vast majority of Americans,” Bloomberg said. “Too much wealth is in too few hands, and it’s concentrated in too few places. There are a handful of cities that have boomed, but a lot of the country is stagnating. Our middle class is getting smaller and smaller."

A major focus of Bloomberg’s plan is on job training and retraining, an initiative he considers so important that his campaign says the former mayor would place his vice president in charge of the initiative on his first day in office. Bloomberg will focus on that plank of his plan in Chicago at Olive-Harvey community college in Pullman on the Far South Side.

[crazytown]

1. What is Bloomberg's game plan?

He won't hurt Sanders or Warren (unless he goes negative), only split the moderate vote.

[brooklynite]

2. His goal is to be the primary centrist candidate...

Splitting the vote doesn't matter, because the eventual nominee will need a majority of Delegates.

[crazytown]

3. Four candidates clearing the 15% mark in most contests?

Warren delegates won't go with Bloomberg, they will vote for Biden when ballots play out. Biden won't take Bloomberg as VP, he has his eye on Stacey. Seems pointless to me - narcissm. In the primaries it gives the left an easy target - 'don't let billionaires buy elections'.

[brooklynite]

5. His concern appears to be that Biden will eventually crash and burn...

...he had previously indicated that he was comfortable with Biden as a candidate.

[crazytown]

6. Do you think this is a well thought out insurance policy

for the mainstream/moderate wing of the party? Biden does not look like crashing to me - his polling is rock solid despite the candidate's hiccups. I'm thinking it is more likely he will go negative against Warren, if she looks like getting a plurality of delegates.

[democrank]

4. Far too many places in this country have been "left behind" so I'm grateful

to anyone who has a plan for real change. Some of our country’s regions and neighborhoods have been suffering for decades. It’s time to do something. Not hold a photo op, actually do something.