As I mentioned this morning, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is
officially not going to get into the race for the White House as a third
party spoiler, and the NY Times received some of Bloomberg's research
on the run. It's interesting stuff indeed.
Bloomberg's advisers thought he had a real shot as the third party alternative in a Trump v Sanders matchup:
Amazing.
Bloomberg's team thought he would win the Upper Midwest with the
exception of Minnesota, while utterly breaking Trump in the South, with
Bloomberg somehow being competitive in both Texas and California and being in position to get to 270 win easily.
But the reality of a Clinton/Trump matchup apparently forced him to fold his cards completely.
The
scenario here is that Bloomberg weakens both sides to the point where
nobody gets to 270, and then the GOP-controlled House would decide the
election for Trump.
Note the maps come from our old
friend Doug Schoen, which means they are vastly overstating Bloomberg's
chance of winning any state whatsoever. The actual reality is that much
like Perot's run two decades ago, Bloomberg wouldn't win a single
state, but would split a vast number of states that would make for a
different swing state group. That chaos would almost certainly benefit
Trump as well, allowing him to win states that he wouldn't have a shot
at.
The upshot would be the same: Bloomberg would
create a path for President Trump. Luckily that's not something that he
wants to be remembered for, so for now, we're being spared his ego.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The Bloomberg Is Off The Rose
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