More than 50 mayors who once backed Bloomberg throw support behind Biden

[highplainsdem]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/486885-over-50-mayors-who-once-supported-bloomberg-throw-support-behind-biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the endorsement of 55 current and former U.S. mayors who previously backed ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with the mayors citing the former vice president's record on issues such as infrastructure, gun control and climate change.

“So many of us stood with Mike Bloomberg because of his passionate advocacy around guns and climate and because he’s done so much to move our communities forward,” Mayor Keith James of West Palm Beach, Fla., said in a statement. “We know Joe Biden is deeply committed to these same goals, and I am excited to help him win Florida.”

“Joe Biden has stood for working men and women, for healthcare for all Americans, and for climate action for decades. We can't afford another four years of Donald Trump in the White House and I am proud to stand with Joe,” added Mayor Victoria Woodards of Tacoma, Wash.

Other endorsements included former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, Memphis, Tenn., Mayor Jim Strickland and San Francisco Mayor London Breed.

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[Cha]

1. Awesome! Biden is the Unity Candidate.. The Voters

in South Carolina and in the 2 Super Spectacular Tuesdays have shown the world that.

TY, hpd

[emmaverybo]

2. Day one he stressed unity and they smirked. Appeasement they said. One by one, the other

candidates started talking unity.

Guess what? No joke! Biden has always been THE unity candidate.

I hope to see him to be the unity president.

[Cha]

3. They're not smirking anymore...

Unity only made good sense from the very beginning.. Thank you, Joe Biden, for knowing that. He is not the 30% coalition candidate.

Mahalo, emmaverbo

[emmaverybo]

4. No, not "the 30% coalition candidate!"

[Cha]

5. Booom..

[Awsi Dooger]

6. Biden or Bloomberg

Those were the two names I heard in that Naples shuttle bus last November. Not shocking to me that one became the nominee. The demographic in that shuttle bus is essentially the one that tipped this thing.

Nobody wants to accept this but I'm convinced that Bloomberg did have a big chance at the nomination if things had gone differently a few weeks ago. The party wasn't going to march blindly and allow a socialist to steal this thing via 30% in state after state.