2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-looks-beyond-contests-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/

"Are there some of Trump's supports who are racist and sexist? There are. Are we going to win them over? We're not," said Sanders. But there are some, he thinks, who could support him.
"But I think the majority of his supporters are probably people who are angry and disgusted at a political system that's left them behind […] They're saying, 'Who stands up for us? Democratic leadership stand up for us? No.'"
 

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Wednesday at Stoke said:
Yes Bloomberg is not going to be a joke, he's matching Steyer's spending in a week and it's apparently the largest ever in primary spending. He's basically Bruce Wayne.
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He entered too late to have any realistic chance of winning the nomination.
 

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Revan said:
He entered too late to have any realistic chance of winning the nomination.
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That's my gut feel
He will miss the first 4 primaries
Not only will this potentially cost him delegates but will also make it harder for him to pick up momentum
Yes he can concentrate on California but it's still quite probably that other candidates will pick up quite a few delegates
And I just cant see the delegates switching to him
Who knows though... He certainly has enough cash to chuck at the problem
 

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Bloomberg ads are already flooding the online world, which may get him into the next debate. I'd rather see him there than the soap opera villainess.
 

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New poll finds majority of Americans across political spectrum back Elizabeth Warren’s ultra-millionaire tax


New polling results released Friday find broad support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax, with Americans across most demographic groups backing her plan to impose an annual two percent tax on wealth over $50 million.

In her primary campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, the Massachusetts Democrat has harshly criticized some of the wealthiest Americans for complaining about the tax, whose revenue she plans to use to pay for a universal childcare program, student debt forgiveness, and tuition-free public college.

Sixty-three percent of Americans support the wealth tax, including 77 percent of Democrats, more than half of Independent voters, and 57 percent of Republicans.

College-educated Republican men—who are more likely than people in other demographics to be affected by Warren’s wealth tax—were the only group in the New York Times/SurveyMonkey poll who reported disapproval of the plan, with 41 percent opposing it.
As the Times reported, such wide support for any tax hike plan is rare; just 45 percent of Americans backed President Donald Trump’s tax plan in 2017, whose benefits mainly went to corporations and the wealthy.
On social media, political observers called the diverse coalition of supporters for the plan “remarkable.”

Crowds at Warren’s rallies have taken to chanting, “Two cents!” as Warren slams billionaires including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced his own presidential run last weekend.

At a rally in Iowa this week, Warren suggested Bloomberg thought it would be “a lot cheaper to spend a few hundred million dollars just buying the presidency” than to pay just two percent of his $54 billion wealth to help narrow the wealth gap in the United States.

Some wealthy Americans have joined a majority of the electorate in supporting Warren’s plan and that of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is also running for the 2020 nomination and has proposed a wealth tax on the richest Americans and corporations.
Filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney—great niece of Walt Disney—expressed her support on Twitter this week.
“[If] people own enough to completely reinvigorate all the aspects of the supposed American Dream that have decayed into near uselessness over the last 50 years, then Bernie, Elizabeth, I say go for it,” wrote Disney. “Bring on the wealth tax. I will happily pay.”
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Wednesday at Stoke said:
His idea is banking on him winning California and becoming legit on Super Tuesday.
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He has zero chance of winning in California. The one thing Biden and Bernie supporters in California have in common is they don't want a NYC billionaire to be the nominee of the Dems.

Raoul said:
Bloomberg ads are already flooding the online world, which may get him into the next debate. I'd rather see him there than the soap opera villainess.
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Bloomburgers is the soap opera villainess.
 

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Unfortunately there was a slightly longer thread that seems to have vanished
 

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Raoul said:
I can't go to Youtube without getting a Bloomberg ad before virtually every video starts
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Worst part is I’m certain so many people will eat it up. I’m really getting disillusioned by voters. It’s like they just see the government as a big business and people want to vote for the CEO.
 

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Raoul said:
More so the moderate who can beat Trump and get things done angle.


No policies on his website yet though....
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Every single scene is Bloomberg surrounded by black people.

This is the political ad equivalent of 'some of my best friends are black'.

I mean, it's great that he's an inclusive leader. But this is some of the most transparent pandering I've seen in a while.
 

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Bit of a depressing read. On one hand, this hyper focus on only beating Trump who is a symptom of our politics is extremely short sighted. On the other hand, they're putting so much weight on the things he did back in the 60s and 70s.
 
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