Who should Bloomberg choose to be his running mate this time around?

[mia]

In 2016 Bloomberg announced "that he would not run because of the risk it created of Donald Trump being elected." He supported Hillary Clinton as the best candidate to defeat Trump.

This time, thanks to his strong ad campaign, Bloomberg seems to be dominating the 2020 Democratic field.

The most unusual thing about Mike Bloomberg’s shuttered campaign preparations

March 9, 2016 at 12:11 p.m. EST
Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign-that-never-was had put together a few dozen strategists and staffers. It had set up campaign offices in two states. It had produced television ads calling the former New York mayor and financial media titan "no nonsense, non-ideological, centrist, results-oriented."

The New York Times reported it all following Bloomberg's announcement that he would not run because of the risk it created of Donald Trump being elected.

But the most interesting detail about the billionaire's preparations was who Bloomberg was reportedly going to ask to be his running mate.

Michael Mullen, the retired admiral and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had been vetted by Bloomberg's legal team and the two had undergone "extensive talks," the Times reported, with only a formal invitation remaining....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/03/09/the-most-unusual-thing-about-mike-bloombergs-shuttered-campaign-preparations/

[ritapria]

1. Bloomberg's running mate is the 2 billion dollars he's planning

to blow on this vanity project

[mia]

2. Bloomberg promotes Democrats.

Bernie, not so much.

[thesquanderer]

7. Bloomberg has supported plenty of Republicans. Bernie not so much. (n/t)

[Skya Rhen]

3. Perhaps another former Republican currently running in the Primaries?

[mia]

5. Elizabeth Warren?

Bloomberg/Warren 2020. The best of both worlds.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. For sure not a RethugliKKKon! Perhaps Joe Biden would agree to serve as VP again for Mike.

Though I doubt Joe would want to play "second fiddle" again.


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Bloomberg will really complicate things if

he goes with Sen Pat Toomey whom he has supported and looks to for a GOP middle-way on guns.

I mean they're both Wall Street proteges. Bloomberg may bring out a milder GOP on some positions, but he's still all about cutthroat capitalism, lightly regulated.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. He's probably be most comfortable with this guy as VP...

[bullwinkle428]

9. "Dominating the field"?? Is this an Andy Borowitz production?

[mia]

10. Dominating the air waves...

Which Rival Will Bloomberg Go After in His ‘Massive’ Ad Buy?

In the latest sign Michael Bloomberg is prepared to spend freely on a prospective presidential bid, the billionaire has begun booking a huge quantity of TV ad time in media markets across the country — including the one that’s home to President Donald Trump’s winter White House, Mar-a-Lago.

The ads will begin airing as soon as Monday. One of the first ad buys was spotted in the West Palm Beach, Fla., media market, according to Advertising Analytics. As of 2:30 p.m., Advertising Analytics tracked buys in 32 different states across the country, with $19.4 million in reservations so far.

“This buy is MASSIVE,” Ben Taber, an analyst for the television ad tracking firm Advertising Analytics, said in an email to POLITICO. “I think it‘s going to be the biggest buy of all time,” he wrote. Then-President Barack Obama had a $30 million, one-week long buy in 2012, but Taber said this “seems like this might pass that for largest buy in one week.”

...The grand Bloomberg strategy appears to be hoping that the rest of the field is partially winnowed and entirely out of money after the early states, enabling the ex-Republican to dominate the wide landscape of Super Tuesday states on March 3. Beyond that, who knows? Alex Pareene thinks Bloomberg (and Deval Patrick) may be gambling on a contested convention (I tend to disagree, but it’s an interesting theory). If Team Bloomberg’s real aim is to prevent the nomination of Warren or Bernie Sanders, it could wait to see what happens in the early states, or begin softening up the progressive wing of the field early on by hitting them with big sacks of money. We’ll know next week which way Bloomberg and his wallet are leaning, at least for the moment.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/which-rival-will-bloomberg-go-after-in-his-massive-ad-buy.html