Primary Democrats: Bloomberg's Risky Strategy

Correspondent in Washington

Michael Bloomberg does nothing like everyone else. After belatedly announcing his entry into the presidential race on November 24, 2019, the former Republican mayor of New York who is running for the nomination for the Democratic Party, has been waging a completely new campaign since then.

Opposing all the uses of contemporary American politics, Bloomberg completely abandoned the first four primary states, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Relatively unimportant in terms of their number of delegates, these states provide the candidates who win them with a national audience. Instead, Bloomberg has chosen to focus on those likely to offer it the largest number of these delegates, in particular the fourteen who vote on March 3, during Super Tuesday. California and Texas, the two most populous states in the United States, were particularly coveted that day.

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