Sanders, Bloomberg test different paths to a California win

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By Michael R. Blood and Kathleen Ronayne


One is spending millions of dollars flooding the airwaves from Los Angeles to Sacramento, highlighting his tenure as mayor of the nation’s largest city and commitment to key Democratic causes. The other has hired 80 staff members to knock on doors, organize volunteers and promote his message of political revolution in at least seven languages.

No two Democratic presidential candidates are putting as many resources into the fight for California as Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former New York mayor, and Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator. Sanders is marshaling his passionate volunteers to win the biggest prize of the presidential primary season, while Bloomberg arrives with a virtually unlimited checkbook after a late entry in the race.

For now, they’re deploying different strategies. Bloomberg is focused on television advertising, long viewed as the best way to reach voters in the state that is home to 40 million people, while Sanders is focused on door-to-door campaigning on the ground. But they each have the resources and plans to do both, and earlier than most of their rivals.

As Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter put it: “California is extremely important to Mike.”

Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Sanders-Bloomberg-test-different-paths-to-a-California-win-31414835

[empedocles]

1. Leaping ahead to leap year February, hoping SC primary puts a damper on these forays.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Bloomberg ain't gonna win California nt

[comradebillyboy]

3. I doubt if either one will win California.