Quote (thesnipa @ 12 Feb 2020 18:56)
im still confused what his options are. like can he get into polls now to enter later debates and get in primaries? is he depending on write in votes in some states? i figure a guy as smart as him only entered late for a specific reason, he's not an impulse guy and his campaign seems super professional. i just dont see the advantage he sees in entering late from the outside. bit confusing.
The DNC has already changed the debate qualification criteria so that Bloomberg can participate without having private donations.
He obviously has no path to win an outright majority of delgates and is playing for a brokered convention. Say his money, experience and professional campaign allow him to push away Buttigieg, Biden and Klobuchar, and we enter the convention with Bernie having 40% of pledged delegates, Biden having 8%, Warren at 8%, Buttigieg at 14%, and Bloomberg at 28%. In this scenario, which I think is not unreasonable at all, Bloomberg would be the consensus choice for Biden and Butigieg supporters, and also for significant chunks of Warren's delegates. So in a second round of voting, Bernie would get say 45% of pledged delegates, Bloomberg would get 55%, and all the superdelegates would rally behind Bloomberg as well.
Alternatively, he might simply be in the race to stop Bernie/Warren without any true ambitions of becoming president himself; just to make sure that the next president wont be someone who might raise his taxes.