The Washington Post reports that former Mayor Mike Bloomberg pledges to spend big on candidates this fall:
“The political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun regulation group founded by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, plans to spend $45 million over the coming months to elect favored candidates in eight of the states that could determine control of the White House, House, Senate and local offices. The effort will include a new student organizing drive, with plans to hire 30 new organizers for volunteer recruitment drives at 32 college and university campuses in Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin … About 80 percent of the $45 million will go to television and digital advertising, according to a person familiar with the spending who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly … Everytown announced a $60 million spending plan before the 2020 election aimed at defeating then-President Donald Trump and electing more Democrats who support gun regulations.”
Bloomberg has made braggadocios claims like this before. Sure, he can afford it, but will he actually put up the money? Who knows.
There’s negligible real grassroots here. It’s the same, tired phony claims gun control groups have made for decades and they’ve never, ever delivered a voting bloc for their issues. It’s one person (Bloomberg) with a lot of money making wild claims knowing the regime media will not fact check him.
I don’t see anything new here.
