Turning those numbers around will require a lot of work, and Bloomberg is already shifting leftward to match up with the modern Democratic Party’s leanings. Bloomberg is clearly banking that Democrats’ opinion of him will improve once they get to know how liberal he really is. Bloomberg’s challenge is compounded by the fact that he is skipping the first two states to vote, Iowa and New Hampshire. But no candidate in decades has bypassed both states and gone on to win the Democratic Party’s nomination. Trump based his appeal on going against the Republican Party’s grain.

Source: Washington Post November 26, 2019 20:19 UTC