I believe that Bloomberg is deeply committed to getting Trump out of the White House and that he will continue to spend.
He’s starting a new independent expenditure company to help Democratic candidates.
He started his election data, media and analytics company in Spring 2019, with the intention of using it to help Democratic candidates. Well before he decided to run.
I very much agree. How is this going to work with the $2,800 limits? I know that you can create PACs but I thought it had to be more than “I’m John Smith and would like to help Joe Biden” I thought you at least had to make a pretense that it was larger issue advocacy and could not directly promote a candidate.
That’s what I found so interesting about the new ad, the one I posted. Technically it is an ad from the Bloomberg campaign. It’s a straight up anti-Trump ad with no mention of any candidate name. The only Biden reference is the #GoJoe hashtag at the end.
But I think Dump Trump IS the larger issue in this case. So maybe it will be advocacy ads for healthcare, getting rid of Trump, gun control - with only passing references to the candidate. Although I think they can use footage of a candidate as long as they don’t coordinate with the campaigns.