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What is Michael Bloomberg Doing?
It was a fiery five-Democrat pile-up for Mike Bloomberg last night in Vegas. Was it all sound and fury, signifying nothing?
Whatever you may think, or not think, about billionaire and one-time Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, most of us can agree he is probably not completely stupid.
Sure, he is insulting more often than he is eloquent. He doesn’t seem to be all that skillful of a communicator: He insults sometimes just to make a point.
Bloomberg isn’t a great orator. He isn’t charming. He obviously isn’t a great debater. He isn’t very likable at first glance. He wasn’t always a Democrat.
But Michael Bloomberg didn’t become a first-generation billionaire without a decent amount of business sense. Financial empires don’t build themselves, after all.
So just what does Mike Bloomberg hope to accomplish with his presidential run? Is it a mere vanity project?
Bloomberg claims that beating Donald Trump is his only motivation. But if Bloomberg really wanted Trump defeated, a better bet might have been to go all-in on a nice, affable guy like Pete Buttigieg. Someone with relatively little baggage and a long career ahead of him.
Bloomberg could have even gone all-in for Sen. Amy Klobuchar. She is at least a bit more moderate that Sen…