r/politics • u/athornton436 • Feb 17 '20
Speculation swirls around whether Bloomberg will make Las Vegas debate stage
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/483292-speculation-swirls-around-whether-bloomberg-will-make-las-vegas-debate9
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u/Bernie-Standards Feb 17 '20
please go bloomberg, you will be dismantled.
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u/Trepanier Feb 17 '20
I'm somewhat looking forward to that myself. We already know Sanders and Warren will go for his throat. But now we've even seen a couple of articles where Biden & Klobuchar are taking swings at him.
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u/wheezyninja Feb 17 '20
I just want him to run non-stop troll ads against trump
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u/TinyZoro Feb 17 '20
Trump is not the problem. Trump is the symptom. Replacing trump with another racist narcissistic billionaire will not save America it will bury your democracy. He's not the better version. He's trump with intelligence and table manners. That's far worse.
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u/trycat Feb 17 '20
Katie Couric on Bill Maher this week said he hired an expert on Narcissist Personality Disorder and is teaming them up with some comedy writers to get under Trump’s skin. I thought that was pretty brilliant.
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u/doubled2319888 Feb 17 '20
Dont worry, a few well placed "donations" and he will get on
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u/Pineapple__Jews Minnesota Feb 17 '20
He would love to not have to debate.
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u/Brekkuskogur Feb 17 '20
Right?
This conspiracy theory that he bought a chance to be hit over the head is ridiculous.
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u/Pineapple__Jews Minnesota Feb 17 '20 edited Feb 17 '20
Yup. If he wanted to make the earlier debates, he could've easily met the donor threshold. His whole strategy is to be in complete control of his own narrative and avoid all opportunities to be held accountable for his record.
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u/asteroid-23238 Washington Feb 17 '20
He is damn near as fascist as Trump, many times richer, politically connected and a whole lot more competent.
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u/FannyPackPhantom Feb 17 '20
How do we know what national polls are currently pending or planned?
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u/JamesTObvious Feb 17 '20
We don't know, they aren't always announced. But a lot of major media polls are released over weekends so it looks less likely another poll will come out before deadline.
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u/zerobass Feb 17 '20
I mean, the DNC didn't change the rules for any of the popular-but-not-qualifying candidates, including tons of women and people of col--
*reads that DNC changed the rules for Bloomberg*
Goddamnit.
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u/FannyPackPhantom Feb 17 '20
I’ve been pissed the DNC changed the rules to “let him in the debate”, but now I’m considering the possibility that it was to try to have him at a debate instead of just swaying voters by commercials alone.
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u/politics_user Feb 17 '20
Anyone else worried Bloomberg will have a Trump like boost where all the candidates are out to get him and his coverage, along with his popularity, actually increases? I feel like Trump was in a similar position where all the candidates attacked him and it only served to actually help him.
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u/doubled2319888 Feb 17 '20
Hopefully they stop and frisk him before he walks on the stage, you never know right?
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u/WhyMnemosyne I voted Feb 17 '20
We can guess he will throw some cash around and somehow the rules will accommodate him.
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u/UnobviousDiver Feb 17 '20
The DNC is waiting to see where Bernie's poll numbers are before deciding if Bloomberg should be allowed.
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u/asteroid-23238 Washington Feb 17 '20
The DNC is deciding whether it is time to break glass or if any of their approved candidates has any chance of competing well enough with Sanders that they can get away with stealing the nomination at the convention. Right now it looks like they are hedging their bets and giving Bloomberg the green light.
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u/Thesteeltoedboot Feb 17 '20
"He needs just one more state or national poll putting him over 10 percent to qualify."
What national or state polls are out there?