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Sanders: ‘Obscene’ Bloomberg Is Trying to ‘Buy the Presidency’ – I’ll Support Dem Nominee

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that he thinks it is “obscene” that fellow 2020 Democrat former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to “buy the presidency.” And that he “will support the Democratic nominee.”

Sanders said, “I do think it’s a bit obscene that we have somebody who, by the way, chose not to contest in Iowa, in Nevada, in South Carolina, in New Hampshire, where all of the candidates, we did town meetings. We’re talking to thousands and thousands of people, working hard. He said, I don’t have to do that. I’m worth $60 billion. I have more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans. I’ll buy the presidency. That offends me very much.”

Without being in the Senate, no one would have bought Bernie’s book, which made him rich. Bernie is trying to buy the election using Other People’s money. Seriously, what’s the difference between doing that and Bloomberg using his own money? I wonder if Comrade Bernie was upset when Barack Obama broke his pledge to John McCain to take the public option for the general election and instead continued to raise money, spending almost $750 million. Or in 2012, when Obama raised almost a billion dollars.

You know what’s obscene? Out of state money flowing to state and federal level candidates and elected officials. AOC received around 80% of her funding from people and companies that aren’t even in her district. Money flows from out of state to support/defeat propositions. That’s obscene.

Also obscene, people getting elected to Congress and then making boatloads of money off their position.

Sanders later stated, “[I]f Mr. Bloomberg wins, and I certainly hope he does not, I will support the Democratic nominee.”

Well, you know, perhaps the #NeverTrumpers could learn something. If they had Trump’s record in office laid out in front of them and didn’t know the name, they’d support him. Instead, the nutjobs want to support socialist Democrats because they’re so deranged.