Michael Bloomberg 2020 campaign megathread

[Simfan34]

WTF!

https://twitter.com/xeniaporvida/status/1231270547574677506?s=21

This story came out almost two months ago.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Pete is already running negative ads so I don't think it will matter. Bloomberg will run negative ads against Sanders but only after moderates drop out. Right now 2 of Klobuchar, Pete & Biden have to drop out. I think Klobuchar drops out after SC or after ST. Biden if he loses SC, he has to drop out. Pete has to drop out after ST, if Bernie/Biden/Bloomberg are Top 3 & if Biden wins SC.

Let the field clear itself. Warren will also drop out after ST. You will then see Bloomberg running 100s of Millions of $ of Negative ads against Bernie & Pete/Biden/Whoever is left.

I'm repeating myself here, but "after Super Tuesday" is too late. If Amy, Joe, Pete & Mike are so worried about Bernie, then they need to get together and agree who is going to carry their standard. (What exactly are they rallying behind again? "Less inequality, but not too much less?" "Aim low, so success is easy and even failure looks good?" "Republicans are bad, but we agree with them that socialism is worse?" "Hyper-capitalism is so great for America that we should ignore the downside?" "Trump is awful, so just forget about anything else?") The absolutely latest they should be doing this is a conference call after the final SC results are in, but I'm pretty confident they'll wait until after Super Tuesday, if they do it at all, when it will be too late.

[Storebought]

The absolute incompetence of the current field is the reason why I already consider Sanders the presumptive nominee.

[SN2903]

The absolute incompetence of the current field is the reason why I already consider Sanders the presumptive nominee.

No Bloomberg will get it still.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Bloomberg may be burning, but can he take Sanders down with him? What if he spammed the airwaves with anti-Sanders ads? Could you see him doing this?

If that’s really how this went, you can bet your ass myself and hundreds of thousands / millions of other Bernie supporters who would be #BlueNoMatterWho in most cases would be taking our asses to a third party or sitting this election out.

Bernie is winning fair and square — deal with it, if this corrupt AF party wants to cheat him out of the nomination, I’d rather burn it all down and start over. No apologies.

There you have it. A Sanders supporter voices the real reason why they support the democratic socialist. The whole "we're taking the fight to Trump" was always baloney.

1 Atlas user = 99.9% of Bernie's entire voter base

[Continential]

Mike has such an abhorrent history. I could never bring myself to vote for him in the primary.

The candidate he tried to make himself out to be through his ads would have been a good anti-Bernie option but nah. IDK what to do next month.

Maybe Support Warren if she is polling decently in Georgia?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Mike has such an abhorrent history. I could never bring myself to vote for him in the primary.

The candidate he tried to make himself out to be through his ads would have been a good anti-Bernie option but nah. IDK what to do next month.

Pick Biden, ofc.

[Amtrak Joe]

Bernie is winning fair and square — deal with it, if this corrupt AF party wants to cheat him out of the nomination, I’d rather burn it all down and start over. No apologies.

Well good luck, because the Earth may be burning down in Trump's second term before you can burn down the Democratic Party. Because even after all the awful sh1t that Bernouts have said to me, I am still more willing to vote for Sanders than to vote for Trump. And you should be willing to vote for Bloomberg over Trump. Third parties are a joke in this political system.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Mike has such an abhorrent history. I could never bring myself to vote for him in the primary.

The candidate he tried to make himself out to be through his ads would have been a good anti-Bernie option but nah. IDK what to do next month.

Pick Biden, ofc.

If he’s still relevant I guess.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I love to see it.

https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1232004300009877506?s=20

[redjohn]

Mike's a goon and I cannot wait for him to spend all his money just to lose badly to Bernie. He and Donald truly represent the soulless, corrupt establishment that Bernie's entire campaign is against.

What's worse is that Bloomberg isn't even entertaining. He's a horrible debater and his performance proved to everyone that he's a wannabe oligarch without the skills to even win a primary. All he knows about elections involves throwing money at voters hoping he can eek out wins.

[Calthrina950]

Mike's a goon and I cannot wait for him to spend all his money just to lose badly to Bernie. He and Donald truly represent the soulless, corrupt establishment that Bernie's entire campaign is against.

What's worse is that Bloomberg isn't even entertaining. He's a horrible debater and his performance proved to everyone that he's a wannabe oligarch without the skills to even win a primary. All he knows about elections involves throwing money at voters hoping he can eek out wins.

Bloomberg is a plutocratic monster, and I would argue that he is worse than Trump in that respect, given that he is many times wealthier than Trump and is the former Mayor of New York City. One thing that continues to vex me is how he managed to dupe so many black voters into supporting him. His record on stop and frisk alone should have been damaging to his chances.

[John Dule]

I love to see it.

Is this some sort of eastern saying? I'd never heard this before until I joined Atlas.

[The Ex-Factor]

Mike's a goon and I cannot wait for him to spend all his money just to lose badly to Bernie. He and Donald truly represent the soulless, corrupt establishment that Bernie's entire campaign is against.

What's worse is that Bloomberg isn't even entertaining. He's a horrible debater and his performance proved to everyone that he's a wannabe oligarch without the skills to even win a primary. All he knows about elections involves throwing money at voters hoping he can eek out wins.

Bloomberg is a plutocratic monster, and I would argue that he is worse than Trump in that respect, given that he is many times wealthier than Trump and is the former Mayor of New York City. One thing that continues to vex me is how he managed to dupe so many black voters into supporting him. His record on stop and frisk alone should have been damaging to his chances.

It has got to be those misleading ads showing Obama praising him. Most people (of all races, genders, etc) are low-information voters who don't follow the political news that closely and just notice the TV ads as they are playing when they watch something else. I bet most people you meet on the street don't know about stop-and-frisk, and I bet almost no one knows that Bloomberg endorsed George W. Bush, did not endorse Obama in 2008 and barely did so last minute in 2012.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

In 2019 speech, Bloomberg mocked Brooklyn father and son who died from heroin as ‘not a good family’

[TheLaRocca]

Bloomberg may be burning, but can he take Sanders down with him? What if he spammed the airwaves with anti-Sanders ads? Could you see him doing this?

If that’s really how this went, you can bet your ass myself and hundreds of thousands / millions of other Bernie supporters who would be #BlueNoMatterWho in most cases would be taking our asses to a third party or sitting this election out.

Bernie is winning fair and square — deal with it, if this corrupt AF party wants to cheat him out of the nomination, I’d rather burn it all down and start over. No apologies.

There you have it. A Sanders supporter voices the real reason why they support the democratic socialist. The whole "we're taking the fight to Trump" was always baloney.

yup I sure do love the chaos/establishment meltdown!

[Non Swing Voter]

How much is Bloomberg committing to ads?  Bernie is a much bigger threat to this country than another Trump term.  If he's spent $300 million attacking Trump he should be able to commit at least that taking down Sanders.

[UWS]

Here is the quote :

« Bloomberg talks ''backhanded'' Obama endorsement, thought Romney could have done a better job. »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoSUclo5JM

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/MykeCole/status/1232030395870466048

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-24/bloomberg-tops-half-a-billion-dollars-in-campaign-advertising
Bloomberg Tops Half a Billion Dollars in Campaign Advertising

Michael Bloomberg has broken the $500 million mark in ad spending more than a week before he appears on a primary ballot for the first time.

Through Friday, he’s spent $505.8 million on broadcast, cable, radio and digital ads, according to Advertising Analytics. That’s an average of $5.5 million a day since he officially became a candidate.

It’s also $190 million more than all of his active Democratic rivals combined, including billionaire hedge-fund founder Tom Steyer, have spent on political ads.

The former New York mayor’s primary campaign is the most expensive in presidential history.

Bloomberg is focusing on the states voting March 3 on so-called Super Tuesday, and beyond, when a majority of delegates needed for the party’s nomination are at stake. He had already saturated those states with more than $300 million in ads by the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.

He’s spent $63 million in California, twice as much as Steyer and almost 10 times what Bernie Sanders has spent.

Bloomberg’s $52.3 million ad campaign in Texas is 17 times greater than Sanders’s. His campaign’s ad buys in Super Tuesday states total $201 million, 15 times greater than Sanders’s.

$500 millions now.

[Devout Centrist]

What a waste of money. Anyone who likes this man baffles me. He's an amoral sociopath and he would wreck untold havoc if we nominated him!

[ElectionsGuy]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-24/bloomberg-tops-half-a-billion-dollars-in-campaign-advertising
Bloomberg Tops Half a Billion Dollars in Campaign Advertising

Michael Bloomberg has broken the $500 million mark in ad spending more than a week before he appears on a primary ballot for the first time.

Through Friday, he’s spent $505.8 million on broadcast, cable, radio and digital ads, according to Advertising Analytics. That’s an average of $5.5 million a day since he officially became a candidate.

It’s also $190 million more than all of his active Democratic rivals combined, including billionaire hedge-fund founder Tom Steyer, have spent on political ads.

The former New York mayor’s primary campaign is the most expensive in presidential history.

Bloomberg is focusing on the states voting March 3 on so-called Super Tuesday, and beyond, when a majority of delegates needed for the party’s nomination are at stake. He had already saturated those states with more than $300 million in ads by the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.

He’s spent $63 million in California, twice as much as Steyer and almost 10 times what Bernie Sanders has spent.

Bloomberg’s $52.3 million ad campaign in Texas is 17 times greater than Sanders’s. His campaign’s ad buys in Super Tuesday states total $201 million, 15 times greater than Sanders’s.

$500 millions now.

He's basically spent a third of what Steyer's worth, and it's less than 1% of his net worth.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Since Friday, I've gotten 3 pieces of campaign mailers + a letter "From the desk of Michael Bloomberg".

Not sure who advised him to send mailers out 3 weeks after early voting, but I don't think that'll work even with late deciders

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1232722239331721222
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1232722986353991680


Has anyone brought up a theory that Mini is Russians asset who will help Sanders to become the nominee to help Trump to win election to help Putin to execute his Evil Plane!?  

[RogueBeaver]

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1232768000752836609