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I'm joined today by the great Josh Glancy,

who is Washington Bureau Chief for the Sunday Times,

and he wrote an article yesterday about the Bloomberg campaign,

with whom he's been embedded for a few days.

Josh, what's it like on the Bloomberg campaign?

Because as far as I could see, it's the best-funded, most glitzy political operation

that's ever existed.

Well, certainly the most glitzy, well-funded primary campaign that's ever existed.

It felt much more like a presidential campaign, like the sort of mid to late stages of a presidential

campaign, the scale, the lavishness, the organization.

I mean, the number of press officers, the amount of food, the freebies, the T-shirts, the bands, the endorsements.

I mean, it really is a huge, well-old machine.

And when you compare it to going out on the Biden campaign or even the Buttigieg campaign,

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