{"id":41130,"date":"2020-02-08T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41130"},"modified":"2020-02-08T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:10:36","slug":"how-will-the-bloomberg-strategy-play-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41130","title":{"rendered":"How will the Bloomberg strategy play in Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Super Tuesday Democratic Party primary presidential race is just a shade less than a month away.<\/p>\n

On March 3, Texans will get to vote for who should be the next Democratic nominee for the presidency. The Texas ballot is going to include a name that\u2019s been missing from ballots that will precede this huge political event.<\/p>\n

Michael Bloomberg is the man of the hour. Or at least he wants to be the man of the hour \u2013 or the man of the primary \u2013 at the end of that quite important election.<\/p>\n

I am trying to assess whether Bloomberg\u2019s strategy of staying out of the early primary states while concentrating initially on the Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Democrats are going to select a significant majority of their convention delegates that day. Bloomberg wants to gather up most of them. Will his Super Tuesday strategy pay off?<\/p>\n

My wife and I watch a good bit of TV during the day in our Princeton home and we see and hear millions of dollars\u2019 worth of ads touting the candidacy of Bloomberg, the former three-term New York City mayor. The latest round of ads includes a spot that features former President Barack Obama saying nice things about the leadership qualities that Bloomberg has exhibited while running the nation\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait! Joe Biden, the former president\u2019s \u201cbrother from another mother,\u201d<\/em> also is running for the presidency this year. Obama hasn\u2019t endorsed Bloomberg. He also hasn\u2019t endorsed his good friend and former political partner (Biden served as vice president for eight years during the Obama administration). The former president is staying out of the nomination fight. He\u2019ll likely endorse whomever his party nominates this summer.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg is opening 11 more campaign offices in Texas. He is hiring hundreds of political workers. He is setting up what they call a \u201cground game\u201d here. What I\u2019m trying to grasp as Bloomberg\u2019s date with Super Tuesday draws closer is how his platform will play here.<\/p>\n

He talks about gun control. He speaks in support of a woman\u2019s \u201cright to choose\u201d whether to remain pregnant. Bloomberg wants to amend the Affordable Care Act, not toss it aside. From what I\u2019ve witnessed in Texas is that (a) Texans don\u2019t want to mess with the Second Amendment, (b) Texans are mostly \u201cpro-life\u201d on the issue of abortion and (c) Texans don\u2019t think much of the ACA.<\/p>\n

Michael Bloomberg, though, needs to demonstrate that he\u2019s a real Democrat, as opposed to some sort of faux<\/em> Democrat who changes his party affiliation to suit the political mood of the moment. I mean, he once was a Republican; then he became an independent; now he\u2019s a Democrat.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, Hizzoner also once declared his intention to stay out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Now he\u2019s all in.<\/p>\n

But \u2026 is he? All in?<\/p>\n\n

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