Mike Bloomberg commits $4 million to Biden ground game in Florida

[RandySF]

Joe Biden’s ground game in Florida is getting a jolt from billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomberg told the Miami Herald Monday that he’s giving $4 million to get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of the Democratic presidential nominee in the nation’s largest swing state. With the money, grassroots organizations held back for months by the coronavirus pandemic plan to promote Biden by talking face-to-face with voters in minority and “underrepresented” communities.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has upended this election season and changed the way campaigns are run in many ways — but one thing that remains unchanged is the importance of a strong ground game in engaging voters, informing them of what’s at stake in this election, and ensuring they know how to make their voices heard at the ballot box,” Bloomberg said in a statement to the Herald. “And that’s especially true of Florida, where mail-in ballots have already been sent out and early voting begins in just three weeks.”

Bloomberg’s spending on neighborhood canvassing is only one piece of a $100 million commitment to beat President Donald Trump in Florida, a state he must win to be reelected. About half that money has been put into TV ads largely intended to reach Black and Hispanic voters.

But with polls suggesting the race in Florida is tight while 5 million mail ballots go out, progressive groups and Florida strategists believe the extended absence of a Biden ground game has left a weak spot in his campaign and could burn him in a state where elections can be won by a few hundred votes. Trump’s campaign returned to in-person campaigning months ago, as the president continued to dismiss the severity of the pandemic.



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246051305.html#storylink=cpy

[Thekaspervote]

1. Thank you Michael Bloomberg!! A true patriot

[renate]

3. Yes! I admire people who are so unselfish

His campaign ads were EXCEPTIONAL but he was a meh candidate... but I think he ran out of a genuine sense of duty. Of course he has an ego but he didn’t need to prove himself to anyone. I think he ran as a patriot. And now he’s continuing to be a patriot. Much respect

[JI7]

2. At least it could provide masks and sanitizer and whatever safety items needed if they are going to

do face to face.

But hopefully they will still keep a distance .

[mr_lebowski]

4. I thought I heard somewhere he's going to pay off the felons court fees ... which was something

I was promulgating basically from the moment it was official that he'd lost.

But I don't know for sure if that is true.

I hope it is cause that plan is f***ing genius

[RandySF]

6. He paid off a large chunk.

[mr_lebowski]

7. DID HE? Sweet!

Not only is just an awesome thing to do for our democracy in general, but I'm SUUUUURE teh wingnuts are absolutely soiling themselves over it. And there ain't SHIT they can do about it. To bad the Repuke assholes who insisted on that BS didn't get it put into their little law saying 'no out of state billionaire can pay off your debt for you' ... lololololol ... oops!

I love love love it.

[Cha]

5. TY Mike Bloomberg!

[Awsi Dooger]

8. This is great but Bloomberg should appear in an ad mocking Trump

Cut an ad with Bloomberg emphasizing that real money always knew that Trump was a financial fraud, nothing but a house of cards playing shell game credit.

It would drive Trump nuts. And blue collar males will listen to a guy like Bloomberg.

[duforsure]

9. Thank You MB for doing this!

But we need someone to help in Texas now too. With some help trump and Cornyn both could lose here in Texas. Its getting to be much closer here as more are turning against them both. Help turn us blue people , and oust Cornyn too. Vote them out!