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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

Bloomberg Is Bad

The Damage Report with John Iadarola

TYT Network

News, Government, Politics

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The establishment is waking up to Bernie's chances, even though they've doubted him from the start. Texas Congressional Candidate Mike Siegel tells us how he's working with unions to get support for the Green New Deal. John has 10 things that everyone should know about Bloomberg before voting in the Democratic primary. The Nation's Ken Klippenstein on Bloomberg's campaign secrecy and the state of the 2020 race. Guests: Mike Siegel, Ken Klippenstein Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a post debate.

0:06.5

Damage report with me, John, I'm really very excited to have you here.

0:09.6

We've got so much coming up on this show.

0:12.4

We've got a candidate.

0:13.4

We've got Kenny Clips.

0:14.4

We've got 10 things that you desperately need to know about Mike Bloomberg.

0:18.6

In fact, we have so much that you know what, we're just going to get started right now.

0:24.5

Is a contested convention going to happen?

0:27.5

Well, if you look at the sort of odds makers in the political world, it is certainly

0:31.1

a possibility to take a look at this chart from 538 showing that the chance that no one

0:36.2

has a majority of pledged delegates is slightly higher than any individual candidate.

0:42.2

Bernie Sanders has the best chance about 37%.

0:46.8

They appear to think that there's pretty good odds that we're going to have a contested

0:51.1

convention where someone comes in to the convention.

0:53.7

We've got the most delegates, but not enough to clearly clinch this thing.

0:57.8

And if that is the case, in particular, if it's Bernie Sanders, then what happens?

1:02.5

Maybe the party gets involved and chooses someone that the voters did not.

1:07.0

Now, I will preface all of the rest of this by saying, I don't think the odds of that

1:11.4

are as high as 538.

1:13.0

Now, I'm not a well paid statistician and political forecaster or anything.

1:18.6

But I'm looking ahead to Super Tuesday where Bernie Sanders has the lead in basically every

1:23.4

state of seen poll, other than Alabama.

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