Please, just campaign on what you have to offer, your plans for the position, and against Trump - not other democrats.

Please.

Well said.

don't need to follow its guidelines or rules. You just change them to suit yourself.

When you can buy an office, you don't need to follow the election laws; you just change them to give you an extra term.

Let's drop the myth that Bloomberg is motivated to run by a desire to defeat Trump. If that was his motivation, he could have supported existing candidates with donations and/or anti Trump ads.

So what is his reason for being a candidate himself?

called him an oligarch, said he is buying the election etc.?

Are American votes for sale to be bought? Does a single person who supports Bloomberg gets paid anything?

Sanders campaign runs with the foxes while it also hunts with the hounds. They can't have it both ways. If they want the attacks stopped, they shoud stop the attacks first.

Also, Bloomberg has nothing to lose. Many Sanders supporters won't vote for any nominee if it is not Bernie anyway.

sanders is a very weak candidate and would be easy for trump to destroy. In addition to the well written 101 page memorandum with oppo on sanders with a 1000 pages of backup from the Clinton campaign trump has his own oppo file on sanders that would destroy such a weak and divisive candidate like sanders.

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Sanders is NOT a Democrat and should NOT have the nomination or else Trump will definitely have another 4 years and our country is done.

I am becoming more and more convinced of this each day and mostly it is being confirmed by just watching Sanders himself and seeing how he conducts himself, along with his Campaign Staff and his "Bernie Bros"....

He isn't qualified and the info on him alone that exists in the oppo files above proves that. But if Bloomberg found more that will show the electorate that he isn't qualified, then I for one hope it comes out soon because I am getting tired of Bernie Sanders and his whining and all his crazed supporters who are constantly attacking and splitting the Democratic Party.

and making up a context suggesting Mike thinks farmers are dumb. And for threatening his staffers with blacklisting. I don't think he fucks around. I think the gloves are off.

well there was that stuff about when he was a younger man.

He came from nothing.

You don't get where he is from nothing by fucking around.

Two of the first friend that I formed were from seriously different circumstances, a guy was upper middleclass, a woman was flat-assed rich. The guy went to Wall Street, the woman went into the Venture Capital field in Silicon Valley. My abilities were no match for those kid's connections. As a young man, Bloomberg faced people like that out of the gate, and the son of a milk-diary bookeeper beat them all, that is impressive, IMO.

Being a media mogul, he must have seen thousands of stories that were corroborated but were not sent for publication.

Any one of those, if damaging enough, will sink Sanders ... and there must be a few dozen of those.

The sooner the train is stopped, the less of a chance of it collapsing a bridge and falling in the river.

That Bloomberg won’t attack the other primary candidates.

Punch him in the face over and over and not do a thing about it. Bernie started shit so let someone else finish it.

Is Bloomberg supposed to take those blows without throwing a punch back?

and doesn't much care who does it. A well vetted candidate will prevent a lot of problems later on in the race.

I really don't think he cares if he is the nominee or not. I think he saw Biden failing and wanted to prevent a Sanders or a Warren as the nominee. Not only would they be shellacked by Trump in the general, it would be personally bad for his (Bloomberg) bank account.

Definitely not a good thing for party unity. Keep the attacks on Trump, everybody, we don't need to eat our own.

I think we should all know the facts... unless they are merely innuendo.

People saying there’s so much damaging oppo but not bringing it into the light is likely just gaming.

Meanwhile, how about this?

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his votes that sent loads of guns to the city Bloomberg led is a gross smear, IMO.

Bernie Sanders' votes on bills like the Brady Bill allowed guns to pass through lax states and end up on the streets of big cities, guns by the hundreds, even thousands. Those guns caused chaos in some neighborhoods in those big cities, often resulting in innocent children getting killed by crossfire. I am not excusing Bloomberg for stop and frisk, but I can see why he may have felt such a blunt force would work, people that have illegal guns, sourced from Trans-state gun runners were not going to turn them in or participate in a buyback program (although police agencies have gotten somewhat smarter on buy backs, buying the guns turned in without questions).

I blame Bernie for voting against the Brady Bill five times. One of the things that the Brady Bill would have done was interdict gunrunners that were running guns to big cities like NYC, Philly, Newark, Boston, ect. Bloomberg had a big problem that Bernie directly helped create. Once the guns were on the streets of NYC and other big cities, there were not many easy ways of getting them off those streets.

So the argument that Bloomberg had no choice but to stop-and-frisk people because Bernie stopped the Brady Bill, aside from being totally absurd, is also completely false.

That provision would have allowed law enforcement to interdict a person carrying multiple guns that they couldn't prove ownership of.

Congressman Charles Schumer initially introduced the bill, but had to pull it because of opposition from Sanders, some other Dems and republican Congresspeople. Schumer reintroduced a watered-down bill that passed the House with more democratic votes, and then the Senate, that bill did not have the tough interdiction provision in it. Bernie helped get the interdiction provision removed, thereby making it possible for guns to still make their way to big cities, as long as the gunrunners were not stopped by police in states that had tough gun laws.

House member Bernie Sanders played a key role in the process of weakening it.

It's not "I can take Trump down and here's why," it's "Everyone else is a loser and here's why."

Sure, why not do Fat Donnie's oppo for him? If we keep going this way the Democratic Party nominee isn't going to be the person most qualified for the job who can motivate voters to unify and vote for them. It's going to be the person who has the fewest knife wounds.

That he can't go after the junior senator from VT too hard because it will piss off his fans. And what someone like Bloomberg or one of his staff finds disqualifying could be a positive with the senator's base.

Especially Bloomberg. I hope they destroy each other and Biden or Warren rises to the top.

Let’s see the dirt!

go after their chosen one? Bloomberg has nothing to lose.

He probably figures he can win over far more Independents and Republicans to more than outweigh the loss of Sanders supporters, a sizable portion of which probably won't even vote for the Democratic nominee in the end unless it is Sanders himself anyway.

Many Bernie fans won't vote for the nominee anyway if it is not Bernie.

If Bloomberg can open the eyes of the others with the truth, Bloomberg has a win-win situation.

Might as well take action that benefits the rest of the party.

Bring it on NOW.

Bloomberg will bring it on at the most opportune moment to cause the maximum damage.

Bloomberg has a media empire. He knows where the bodies are buried. When it comes out, whatever it is, it will be extremely well-corroborated with documentary (and possibly video) evidence.

Bloomberg has made zero effort to substantiate it. If there were anything it would have gleefully been released already. All he's doing is hoping the media will pick up his accusation and run with it. He will never release his so called damaging information because he has no damaging information.

But if Bloomberg's people can find it after maybe three weeks of looking, you better bet that Trump's mudslingers have it. So yes, releasing it ASAP is best for our side, let OUR voters evaluate it and decide.

They are waiting for him to be nominated.

Bernie has been a known quantity for decades. This smear threat smells of rancid baloney.

and his opposition had no money for oppo research.

Nothing in the story says that the Bloomberg campaign has this oppo. They point out that it exists (which has been reported before) and the Republicans have it.

Good reply..

and that Barr will indict the eventual Democratic nominee as soon as the convention is over. They will not show their hands until after the convention---

----which means all the candidates need to come clean before the convention. If the dirt comes out after the nomination, Barr can claim that Democrats were duped by a criminal and that he is saving the country. If the dirt comes out before then Democrats can say "We don't care!"

...make me think less of the candidate pulling them. The win at all cost philosophy is a sign that rules are not followed

Not the greatest Bernie supporter, but I'll maintain my reservations 'till the Big Revelations are made.

Usually these things wind up being much ado about nothing.

The whole thing with Fidel Castro came up during a debate with Hillary. It was pretty much a nothing-burger at the time. I think he got vetted about the stuff with the Sandinistas, too.

That's not to say the repubs won't try to make hay out of it if Bernie is the nominee.

But if that's the best they've got, it'll be nothing more than a fart in the wind.

...so hardly a nothing burger for them..and the primary was all but over by then so why would the media bother talking about the runner up. You’ll be seeing the videos on a loop if he’s the nominee..

I've felt for a long time that Florida was pretty much a lost cause for Dems.

that between Super Tuesday and the convention in Milwaukee that the campaign will be nothing but mudslinging between Bloomie and Bernie.

It may turn a lot of swing voters off completely.

I mean, if you pick Bloomberg as your non-Sanders option at this point, you've basically tossed any complaints about someone's character in the trash.

If something comes out about Sanders that is "disqualifying", bring it. I'll vote for the next on my list who's not Bloomberg.

About those videos of him praising the former Soviet Union. He better say something to get ahead of what's coming if he ends up the nominee because Trump is going to plaster everything Bernie said all over TV. Bernie is going to have to say something about it now or the Democrats will be lucky to hold onto the house.

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He was not privy to high level machinations of the campaign.

now is the right time to do it. We can observe how the information may or may not change polling. It’s amazing how scared Bernie is of Bloomberg, has been talking about him non-stop. Just keep in mind that not only trump’s justice dept is against, history is against us too. Defeating a president during record low unemployment, rising wages, record stock market, etc. is going to be near impossible but with Bloomberg’s financial war chest, maybe. Defeating trump even if we essentially need to buy the election is still worth it. I will always vote dem but I’ll be the first one to admit that the last 3 years were the best years of my life for me and my family financially.

has plenty of Oppositional research on Bloomberg. They lived in the same environment, does anyone understand how NYC, especially Manhattan works?

hands of tRUMP. Divide us and he wins.

If Bloomberg defeats Sanders due to op research and not on positions I'm feeling that few or NONE of Bernie followers will support Bloomberg if he's the nominee and probably will stay at home and not support any other nominee. They felt burned in 16. Just sayin...so much for #votebluenomatterwho in that case.

He has played his cards perfectly so far.

Bernie Bros and his fanatic supporters were never going to support anyone but him anyway....

I am not worried if he isn't the nominee....

I am terrified if he IS the nominee.....

Bernie be the nominee and it could then do as much if not more damage.

If you do fine, get it out there before people make a mistake. If not this is useless division.

I'm fine with vetting a candidate, but baiting irks me without evidence.

You can't let him putter along. Hopefully this is for real.

Put up or shut up, Richie Rich. This guy sucks ass.

I'm pretty sure any skeletons in his closet would have been exposed by now. Even if his opponents in Vermont overlooked something, the Clinton machine would have certainly found it.

They just didn’t use it because they didn’t need it.. there’s already plenty out there that hasn’t been widely reported that will shock a lot of people..