My horse-race bet for 2020 is that Bloomberg will buy it.
The nomination? Strong probability, especially given how eager the DNC establishment is to accommodate him now that Biden is flaming out (they’d settle for Buttigieg, too, but a straight older white male billionaire is more electable in their eyes). Buying the presidency itself will be more challenging, though.
Bloomberg has the money, for sure, and has a reputation as a moderate law-and-order candidate. But in key battleground Electoral College states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania he’s seriously hobbled outside the big cities by his adamant pro-gun-control and pro-choice positions.
Stupid and self-defeating though it might seem to us, guns and abortion are more important issues to a lot of voters than the economy is.
