Michael Bloomberg swarms March and April primary states with 200 staffers

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Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has hired more than 200 staffers to work in 21 states, aides told McClatchy, providing the New York billionaire with the largest organization after the early voting states of any 2020 Democratic candidate. Bloomberg, a late entrant into the White House race, finalized a fleet of state leadership hires this week, signing on a cadre of former campaign hands to Barack Obama, past presidential and gubernatorial races and national and state party committees.

It means Bloomberg, who is skipping the first four nominating contests in February, now has teams in nine of the 14 Super Tuesday states that vote on March 3, as well as aides in four states that vote in April. The campaign’s beefed up ground game supplement the north of $80 million the former New York City mayor has already spent on TV ads through this week.

Bloomberg, who has tapped into his massive personal wealth to fund his campaign, is hiring staff in the following states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, which all vote on Super Tuesday; Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi, which vote a week later on March 10; Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, which vote on March 17 and Georgia, which votes March 24.

Additionally, Bloomberg has already assigned staff to the general election battleground state of Wisconsin, the sole primary on April 7, as well as the late April contests of Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania. Planned Bloomberg campaign office projections include 13 in Pennsylvania, 12 in Ohio, nine in Michigan, seven in Wisconsin and five in Tennessee, according to a partial list shared first with McClatchy.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article238540528.html

[ritapria]

1. Mike is missing on the campaign trail

Mike is skipping the town hall circuit ….He wants to rule over the peasant class; but has thus far deigned to meet and greet with them ……..Will the press , many of whom hope to land a future gig at Bloomberg , ever call him out ?

[reACTIONary]

2. There are a lot of folks...

... who have absolutely no desire to "meet and greet" any political candidate whatsoever at all who will turn out and vote for him. I know of one independent, who has expressed some marginal support for Trump, who switched his registration to Dem so he could vote for Bloomberg in the primary.

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3. And he won't win a one of them either.

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