Critical fight looms: Bloomberg v. Democratic winner in Iowa

[TexasTowelie]

Within the Democrats' sprawling presidential contest is a smaller, yet critical competition among a handful of candidates jockeying to secure the backing of their party's establishment wing.

The first answers come Monday in the Iowa caucuses when voters begin sorting out the fight between progressive candidates, who are arguing for revolutionary change, and more moderate contenders, who many in the party believe have the better chance to defeat President Donald Trump in November.

Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have been making the case in Iowa that they can assemble a broader coalition of voters in states essential to denying Trump's reelection. Waiting for them on the Super Tuesday primaries in March is Mike Bloomberg, an ideologically similar candidate who is skipping the early contests as he spends hundreds of millions of dollars in larger states.

Their candidacies are rooted in the idea of electability, and a belief that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are proposing ideas that excite core Democratic voters with sweeping, expensive calls for structural change but would fall well short of winning an electoral majority against the Republican incumbent.

Read more: https://qctimes.com/critical-fight-looms-bloomberg-v-democratic-winner-in-iowa/article_1ff8fd55-49c7-58f5-b758-636f37ec2e2e.html
(Quad City Times)

[comradebillyboy]

1. I think this only applies if the winner is Sanders.

[robbedvoter]

2. Exactly my thought.