Bloomberg Preps For Second Debate | Talking Points Memo

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is largely staying out of the public eye in the wake of his poor performance during his first Democratic presidential debate last week.


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Unrelated but interesting look at Donald and India

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Bloomberg is trying to buy the election. Why would he need to debate the other candidates?

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All of the non-Bernie candidates just need to play rock-paper-scissors in a round-robin knock-out tournament until they get it down to one. May I humbly suggest that the debate time tomorrow evening be used instead for this.

Don’t really care which one anymore, there’s Bernie, and there’s everyone else. Just pick one, or Bernie’s plurality may swamp everyone else, and we’ll get our own Trump up there, winning with a minority of the votes.

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I hear he pays well…

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ā€œ[I] didn’t have a chance to really say what I wanted to say.ā€

You were standing mic’ed on a stage with the cameras rolling. That was a pretty good clue.

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Apparently there are some concerns about what to feed a man on an all-beef and no-veggies diet in the land of (mostly) vegetarians…

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He is always AWOL: Asshole Whining Out Loud

Racist woman-hating abomination.

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Yes, but about the NDA’s…???

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Can’t believe another debate is coming up already. Too many of the damn things.

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ā€œdelivering the line of the nightā€ — referring to Bloomberg’s line that Sanders is ā€œthe best known socialistā€ who ā€œhappens to be a millionaire with three housesā€

That was ā€œthe line of the nightā€?

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I think Sanders will do poorly. His red faced yelling— the only answer he has to serious questions-- won’t stand up for an entire debate

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ā€œBloomberg’s campaign event in Utah last week has been his only public appearance thus far since last week’s debate.ā€
Ms. Concepcion - I think you misspelled ā€˜debacle’?

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Except that I do care, and I’m starting to think that Mayor Pete could be the better alternative.

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He could and would be, but at this point, everyone’s just splitting up the not-Bernie majority.

Draw straws if that’s what it takes, doesn’t matter. But having too many people splitting the not-Bernie runs the very real risk that Bernie takes it all with a minority of votes at the end.

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No argument here…

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I like him a lot and he really has a terrific and clever team. But I’m afraid he doesn’t have enough time to catch up. And he seems to be raising less money recently. Hope he can pull it off.

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He’s buying if anything ad space in print and TV and paying for mailers reminding people how terrible trumPP is instead of doing what the others are doing, that is, arguing with each other about how he or she is best suited for the job. And pounding on healthcare which is out of their hands and upto Congress which will finalize an debate stage rhetoric.

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How do you cram for the lack of interaction with voters over the last several months? You can’t fake not having had to persuade picky Iowans, rugged New Englanders, and wild Westerners by eating their food, making promises to the locals, shaking a million hands, and taking a billion selfies.

Watch out Biden fans. I think the media is probably itching to say that, ā€œBloomberg did much better this time.ā€ And a stronger Bloomberg means a weaker Biden.

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