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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, February 17, 2020:

Michael Bloomberg needs a strong showing on March 3, Super Tuesday, and to avoid making a fool of himself during the March 15^th debate in Phoenix, in order to accomplish his objective: naming the candidate with the best chance of unseating the president in November at the Democrat National Convention in Milwaukee in July.

He doesn’t want the nomination for himself. He wants to name the person with the best chance of unseating the president in the general election in November. To do that he must keep any of the present candidates from securing the nomination on the first ballot.

If that means naming Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential running mate, with all of her accumulated baggage, so be it.

He is testing that concept through a trial balloon his campaign launched over the weekend. His campaign leaked details of a strategy designed to test the market for Hillary Clinton as his running mate to Matt Drudge on Saturday. Drudge, the founder of his news aggregate website (with millions of visitors), tweeted: “Sources close to Bloomberg campaign told DRUDGE REPORT that candidate is considering Hillary as running mate, after their polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be a formidable force.”

Naturally both parties denied the rumor. Bloomberg’s campaign director Jason Schechter said

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, February 16, 2020: 

Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign leaked details of a strategy designed to test the market for Hillary Clinton as his running mate to Matt Drudge on Saturday. Drudge, the founder of his news aggregate website (with millions of visitors), tweeted: “Sources close to Bloomberg campaign told DRUDGE REPORT that candidate is considering Hillary as running mate, after their polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be a formidable force.”

Naturally both parties denied the rumor. Bloomberg’s campaign director, Jason Schechter, said, “We are focused on the primary and the debate, not VP speculation.” And when Clinton was asked about it on Ellen DeGeneres’ The Ellen Show, she dissembled: “Well, that’s not going to happen, but no, probably no.” However, to add clarity where none was needed, she said in the same interview, “As I say, never, never, never say never. I will certainly tell you I’m under enormous pressure from many, many people to think about it.”

Drudge added that his “source” said Bloomberg was prepared to

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, February 12, 2020:

The Democrat Party’s convention scheduled for July 13-16 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is increasingly likely to be the first brokered convention since 1952. That’s when Adlai Stevenson was nominated on the convention’s third ballot to face Dwight Eisenhower.

This is just as Michael Bloomberg and his political advisory brain trust have planned. By spending “bags and bags” of money, Bloomberg has been able not only to move the needle in his favor in national political polls, he has been able to damage – probably fatally – any chance that Joe Biden might have had to run away with the convention on the first ballot.

The latest poll from Quinnipiac University released on Monday shows that it’s working. Just before the Iowa caucuses, Biden was in the lead with 26 percent of those polled supporting him for the Democrat Party’s nomination for president. Bloomberg’s support was at eight percent.

But Monday’s results show

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, February 11, 2020: 

The latest poll from Quinnipiac University released on Monday shows that Michael Bloomberg’s strategy is working. Just before the Iowa caucuses, Biden was in the lead, with 26 percent of those polled supporting him for the Democrat Party’s nomination for president. Bloomberg’s support was at eight percent.

But Monday’s results show Biden fading to 17 percent, while Bloomberg clocked in just behind, at 15 percent. In other words, Biden lost nine percent while Bloomberg gained seven percent.

In another poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire for CNN, puts Biden even further behind the front runners, at just 11 percent.

FiveThirtyEight’s latest polls confirm Biden’s slide into oblivion. As of February 10,

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Saturday, February 8, 2020: 

For former Vice President Joe Biden it was over even before it got started. At the beginning of the contest at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Friday night, Biden was asked by moderator George Stephanopoulos of ABC News what Iowa voters “missed” by giving him, the former front runner, a fourth place finish behind Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg. Biden responded, “They didn’t miss anything…. I took a hit in Iowa and I’ll probably take a hit here.”

And then he added that the race isn’t over: “But no matter what, I’m still in this.”

He’s in it until his funding stops.

Biden needed a miracle in Manchester to keep his chances alive.

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 6, 2020: 

When Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney decided to vote to convict the president for the abuse of power he knew he’d get blowback.

“I know there’s going to be a lot of blowback from leaders in my party here [in Washington],” he said. “I presume I’ll receive the same reaction from leaders in my party in Utah. Of course, the animosity that might be leveled from people in the street is going to be real as well.”

What he likely didn’t know was just how strong and pervasive that blowback would be. Donald Trump, Jr. led off with his tweet: “Mitt Romney is forever bitter that he will never be POTUS. He was too weak to beat the Democrats then so he’s joining them now.”

Fellow Utah Senator Mike Lee said he was “very disappointed” over Romney’s decision to be the only Republican to vote for conviction, adding that “I strongly disagree with his decision on this. In the heat of this particular decision it’s hard for me to see anything but that disagreement.”

Representative Chris Stewart (R-Utah), a member of the House Intelligence Committee that heard all of the impeachment witnesses, said he has “great respect” for Romney but that on this issue he was wrong. “I sat through hundreds of hours of hearings, listened to dozens of witnesses, and have reviewed thousands of pages of documents,” he said. “There’s no way this president deserves a vote of conviction. I think Senator Romney has reached the wrong conclusion.”

Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) agreed with Stewart:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, February 5, 2020: 

The New York Times unwittingly confirmed Mike Bloomberg’s strategy for beating Donald Trump in November: “Encouraged by the murky outcome [in Iowa on Tuesday] Mr. Bloomberg authorized his campaign team to double his spending on television commercials in every market … and expand his campaign’s field staff to more than two thousand people.”

What is Bloomberg’s strategy? By focusing on Super Tuesday in March, when 14 states will be holding their caucuses, Bloomberg has taken on the role of a Siamese fighting fish — letting the other contestants exhaust themselves in the present contest — so he can replace the exhausted winner with someone he thinks really has a chance of beating Trump in November. Said the Times: “Mr. Bloomberg’s advisers believed that [this] strategy would only have a chance of working if another moderate candidate — most likely former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — failed to emerge from February with a decisive upper hand in the race.”

And fail he did. In Iowa Biden finished fourth, behind Buttigieg, Sanders, and Warren, and barely beating out Klobuchar.

Patricia Murphy, columnist for The Daily Beast online, summarized Bloomberg’s strategy: