'It's going to take a rich guy to beat Trump': Why some Democrats back Bloomberg

[left-of-center2012]

Mike Bloomberg's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination clamor that the White House is not for sale.. On the debate stage as well as the campaign trail, they castigate him as an out-of-touch plutocrat ... Yet here in Stockton, a central California crossroads where low-wage warehouse workers feel left out of the economic boom and the bustling immigrant community has been under siege by President Trump’s crackdown, voters have a different take on Bloomberg’s wealth.

Many Democrats here said they didn’t know that much about the former New York mayor until he started popping up on television in recent weeks. But after an unprecedented advertising blitz in the run-up to the March 3 “Super Tuesday” contests — when California’s primary will be the biggest prize of all — they have begun repeating Bloomberg’s slogan: “Mike will get it done.”

Bloomberg is banking, literally, on Democratic voters across California and throughout the nation arriving at a similar conclusion. He hopes they will look past this week’s feeble debate performance, ignore his history as a Republican and tune out the allegations of misogyny and racial insensitivities in his past — deciding that the imperative to defeat Trump is so great that they can persuade themselves to love the multibillionaire simply because he’s a multibillionaire.

“I tell people, ‘Beating Donald Trump is the top priority,’?” Tubbs said. “Donald Trump and the Republican Party are playing to win.” By nominating one of the other candidates, Tubbs argued, Democrats would be “unilaterally disarming” in the face of Trump’s campaign war chest. “You can’t beat Donald Trump with no money,” Tubbs said. “It’s just not happening. You’re going to have to have the resources to compete and also to build up the infrastructure in states so that something like Donald Trump doesn’t happen again, and Bloomberg has shown a willingness to do that.”

Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, left, and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, both supporters of Bloomberg, speak with the candidate during a visit to Sacramento on Feb. 3.
(Rich Pedroncelli/AP)


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-going-to-take-a-rich-guy-to-beat-trump-why-some-democrats-back-bloomberg/2020/02/20/f365f186-5353-11ea-9e47-59804be1dcfb_story.html

[UniteFightBack]

1. There is truth to this. I hear the Corrupt GOP have more money than they can spend. nt

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Bloomberg has pledged his money to defeat Trump ...

whether or not he is the nominee. So why not elect a real Democrat instead? We’ll get the ad spending no matter what.

[left-of-center2012]

5. "why not elect a real Democrat instead?"

Who would that be?

[Qutzupalotl]

10. Someone who wasn't elected as a Republican

and one who didn’t sabotage Obama behind his back.

[Kurt V.]

3. some ppl monetize outcomes and even values. i won't

[Blue_true]

9. You insist on reducing this situation to the basest level.

It is no where near that. Bloomberg is the only candidate that has actually done concrete things on gun control and climate change abatement, the others have mostly talked (though Biden did some via Obama). Like Biden, Bloomberg has a realistic assessment of the benefits of immigration reform. Bloomberg can question Trump's assessment of the health of the economy and be listened to, no one else has that level of draw - if the economy is still middling along, we will need a person that has the aura to deconstruct Trump's lies on the economy on a debate stage.

[Autumn]

4. Bloom could end all this angst and agony today and release his opposition research on

Bernie. Why hasn't he? Maybe he's busy looking to find something on the woman who beat him up on national TV.

[denem]

6. Bloomberg has said : I will do everything I can to defeat (trump)

whether I am on the ballot, or not'.

Democrats do not have to nominate Bloomberg to take advantage of his grudge match against MF45.

[Blue_true]

7. The thing about Bloomberg is that on every level, Trump gets

completely exposed when compared to him. That matters to a very large number of people, but somehow gets attacked here on DU. Bloomberg can question Trumpinomics and people will listen, he can lecture Trump on climate science and people will listen. The list goes on and on.

[essme]

8. After Warren took his soul I have zero faith in him winning...

...anything.