Bloomberg is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump

[left-of-center2012]

Bloomberg is self-funding his campaign. He’s not taking a dollar from anyone. He knows he’s been fortunate in life and doesn’t think it’s right to ask other people to give money to someone who doesn’t need it. And, by not accepting donations, Bloomberg is not beholden to any special interests. As New York City’s mayor for 12 years, he acted independently and made every decision with the best interests of all New Yorkers in mind.

As president, Bloomberg will do the same thing. Unlike our current president, Bloomberg will put the interests of the American people first.

Last month, some Democratic presidential candidates and their surrogates criticized former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for not participating in the debates. One of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) surrogates even asked the DNC to change the rules so that Bloomberg would be included.

After the DNC announced its latest criteria, other candidates are now complaining that Bloomberg might be in the next debate. They are claiming he’s responsible for the rule change. That’s not true. The DNC sets its own rules. Bloomberg has said from the beginning of his campaign that he will adhere to the DNC’s rules like everyone else. He may qualify for the next debate because he’s been rising in national polls.

And he is running the strongest campaign with support from a broad coalition of Americans that will only keep growing once voting starts. Bloomberg has 2,000 campaign staffers in 43 states, including all Super Tuesday states. He has received 120 endorsements, including more than 60 mayors, 13 congressional representatives, and two state-wide elected officials. In just the past week, Bloomberg received more than 39 new endorsements, including one governor, six members of Congress, 32 mayors, and Trump’s own former Navy Secretary, Richard V. Spencer.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/482967-bloomberg-is-the-best-candidate-to-defeat-donald-trump

[QualTest]

1. Well

The problem is that if I wanted to vote for a Republican.
I'd register as one. Much as Mayor Bloomberg should.

For 2 of those 3 terms as Mayor, he was an R.

It's really funny how super tolerant everyone is of this!

The fact that as the 8th most wealthy man on earth he can buy
a whole lot of "coalition", and into the DNC debates over others
of ethnicity who couldn't make the "now lifted" cut.

Impresses me not.

[tritsofme]

12. Bloomberg is in the debate because people are supporting him.

It would be madness not just to deny him the stage, but to deny his opponents the right to directly engage him.

The candidates who dropped out wouldn’t have benefitted from this change, their numbers were barely measurable, nothing like where Bloomberg is now.

[Horizens]

14. Party affiliation

If anyone won't vote for Bloomberg because he's not a Democrat they also can't vote for sanders.

[Squinch]

17. Or Warren.

[Horizens]

18. She's a Democrat.

Warren has been a Democrat for 24 years and has served as aDemocratic senator for 7.

[Squinch]

19. But she was once a Republican. Don't get me wrong, she's my favorite candidate. But if we're

going to say someone is disqualify-able because they were once members of a different party, we need to apply the criterion to all of them.

To be clear, I'm not advocating that. I think it's moronic.

[Squinch]

16. Seems like lots of new posters feel exactly the same as you do.

I'm thinking Bloomberg is kicking ass in someone's internal poll. What do you think?

[durablend]

2. I'll say this

IDK if he's the "right" person, but he knows Trump's weaknesses/how to get under his skin and has the resources to pwn him.

[pressbox69]

4. That's the way I see it

but I still want to know if he'll show his returns.

[comradebillyboy]

3. Can't draw any conclusions til he starts winning delegates.

Right now Pete has a two delegate lead in the race. Polls are nice but delegates get the nomination.

[Peacetrain]

5. I have not a clue if he will be good at this.. he makes a great commercial

has plenty of money to buy anything he wants

See what he has in a debate.. maybe he is good.. has to prove it to me

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Since Bloomberg has said he will spend whatever it takes to beat Trump, even if he isn't the nominee

I say let’s nominate someone who would be a better President, and hold Bloomberg to his word.

[PatrickforO]

7. I'm sorry - I just have to disagree with you.

Beside the fact that I think the fact billionaires exist in this society shows a failure in tax policy, I just don't think Bloomberg would be a good president. The whole stop and frisk thing is a prime example.

Sometimes I wonder if it is the wealth that makes some of these people so tone deaf.

[MineralMan]

8. Yes, I think he'd defeat Trump pretty easily.

So would Joe Biden.

If Biden goes all the way to the convention, he and Bloomberg will probably be about even, delegate-wise, I'd guess at this point.

If Biden folks, which could happen, most of his supporters would shift to Bloomberg, I think, as would supporters from some other candidates.

I think it's entirely possible that Bloomberg will pass Joe Biden in the delegate count after the Super Tuesday primaries. He's put a huge amojnt of money into those states, and it's showing already in his poll numbers.

There's more buzz about Bloomberg right now, for example, in Minnesota than for any other candidate right now. He's not attracting any Sanders fans, of course, but he's certainly attracting people who have supported other candidates. My wife, who has been solid for Biden, has changed her mind and will now vote for Bloomberg in the primary. I'm waiting to see what Biden does in SC and NV. Then I'll decide whether to vote for Biden or Bloomberg. None of the other candidates have any chance at my primary vote.

If Biden continues to falter, you're going to see Bloomberg shoot up on March 3, as people shift to him.

It's going to be very interesting.

[ibegurpard]

9. "Bloomberg is self-funding his campaign. He's not taking a dollar from anyone."

That was one of the arguments i heard ad nauseum in support of Trump in 2016. No thank you.
If I have to vote for Bloomberg in the GE I will but until then no.

[MineralMan]

10. Bloomberg and Trump are very, very different people.

Look into it.

[ibegurpard]

20. I'm not talking about whether they are different kinds of people

I'm talking about this same "they are able to fund themselves" bullshit. It's a nonsense reason to support anyone.

[totodeinhere]

11. I want a candidate who is more ideologically compatible with my views.

And someone who voted for and supported George W. Bush is not that person. I will vote for him if he is nominated but he is far from my first choice.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. I want one that can demolish Trump.

The stakes in the 2020 election are like none I have ever seen.

[Nanjeanne]

15. Say the "pundits" who have been wrong. Polls show otherwise.