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Bloomberg's late-stage infusion of cash reflects Democrats' concerns about the tight race in a state that is a priority for President Donald Trump. A victory for Biden in Florida, the largest of the perennial battleground states, would significantly complicate Trump's path to reaching the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure a second term.

The billionaire Bloomberg launched his own campaign for the Democratic nomination late last year amid worries about Biden's strengths. Despite spending $1 billion on his campaign, Bloomberg struggled and dropped out in March, quickly endorsing Biden.

Bloomberg's new spending is intended to boost Biden before the start of early voting in Florida, which begins on Sept. 24. A Bloomberg adviser said much of the money will go to television and digital advertising.

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Joe Biden was forced to apologize for opposing crime and busing. Bernie Sanders had to offer up mea culpas for ever being on good terms with the NRA and for questioning open borders, Kamala Harris had to apologize for enforcing whatever passes for the law in California, as did Amy Klobuchar, who also had to apologize for having once supported border fencing and English as the country's national language.

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After jumping into the race, Michael Bloomberg launched his own apology tour for trying to stop gang violence with 'stop and frisk', for criticizing Obamacare, and the easy loans that wrecked the economy.

No candidate, no matter how lefty, is ever truly pure enough for the party of the perpetually woke. Any politician old enough to run for the White House also has a history of believing in things like borders, language, biology, math, law and order, free speech, and any other realities that offend the Wokeratti.

Only a candidate who has done nothing except chastely spout radical nonsense can pass the purity test.

That's why Bernie Sanders, a hack from a minor state who, until being excavated by some Obama campaign people who hadn't gotten a gig with the Clinton campaign, was an obscure nobody who had done nothing except rename post offices, is leading the Democrat death march to political oblivion.

There may be 48 years' worth of difference between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, but they both have the same amount of experience getting anything done in Washington, D.C. The only thing either of them has ever done, him in a long career, her in a short one, is lay out imaginary visions of socialist utopias without having the life skills to change a flat tire, catch a bus, or make their own breakfast.

The Democrats have become a party divided between the moderates, obsessed with destroying Trump, and the socialists, obsessed with destroying the Democrats. The emerging representative of the former is Bloomberg: a billionaire willing to blow through 1.5% of his net worth to stop President Trump. And Bernie represents the vanguard of the oppressed proletariat of Burlington, San Francisco and Aspen, who are slightly to the right of Castro, but, like their leader, have no clue how to get anything done.

Bloomberg represents the core Dems who don't care about anything except beating Trump, while Bernie represents the radicals who care less about beating Trump than about beating the Bloombergs.

The average Democrat outside the DNC doesn't understand this distinction. That's why Bernie is leading.

In the party's current electability obsession, any candidate who does well is electable and can beat Trump. That includes Sanders, a talking horse, and Klobuchar. Biden maintained the lead for so long because he seemed electable. Details like what he actually believes and whether he's playing with a full deck were deemed irrelevant. Those same details also don't matter when it comes to Bernie.

But that just meant that the Democrats outsourced policy to the radical fringe that cares about issues.

That's why the 2020 primaries have seen Democrats endorse gun confiscation (Beto O'Rourke), letting the Boston Marathon bomber vote from prison (Sanders), eliminating private health insurance (Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren), eliminating free speech on the internet (Warren) and taking away the tax-exempt status of churches and synagogues that don't back gay marriage (O'Rourke).

These are not winning issues.

Most Democrats claim they want electable candidates, but they're going into 2020 with unelectable policy proposals hanging around their necks that will alienate the average voters they need to win.

House Democrats could have changed that, but instead they were sucked into the impeachment black hole. And no matter how much Speaker Pelosi resisted, the one part of elected government that the Democrats control is best known for an obsession with Trump and a disinterest in everything else.

Hating Trump isn't a winning strategy. The post-impeachment polls showed that all too clearly.

But it's either that or nationalizing health care, confiscating guns, banning churches and letting terrorists vote from prison. And those are even worse platforms to run on than Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The Democrats are now on track to have a nominee who once said, "I don't mind people coming up and calling me a communist" because they didn't care about anything else except destroying Trump.

And, instead, they're destroying themselves.

The Democrats have locked their party into only one possible strategy and that's turning out as much of their base as possible. But turnout signals from the primaries have been mixed and large-scale national events like the Impeachment Eve rallies and the Women's March fizzled badly with few attendees.

The white suburbanites whose cultural hostility fueled the "resistance" appear to be fading. Despite their hatred of Trump, they're wary of socialism. And a Sanders win would depress their turnout. But a win by anyone except Sanders will depress turnout by his base of Marxist profs and unemployed vloggers. None of the leading candidates summon much enthusiasm from black voters.

Massive turnout requires a united party. And that was a lot easier when they were uniting against something.

2018 saw great turnout because the Democrats rallied around their common front of hating Trump. But uniting against Trump is very different than uniting behind Bernie, Bloomberg, or any other candidate.

Hatred is a powerful force. But it's no substitute for leadership.

Republican primaries have seen massive turnout because of support for President Trump. A united party is set to face off against a divided party. And that is very bad news for the subdivided Democrats.

Hatred doesn't unite political movements. It divides them.

Any political movement that depends on division is inherently fractured. The deeper the divisions become, the harder Democrats hate their common enemy. But underneath that common hatred are a thousand festering hatreds, rivalries and resentments, waiting to break out into internecine warfare.

The Democrats are now at risk of winding up with a brokered convention because hate divided them.

In the Trump Derangement Syndrome era, the Democrats no longer really stand for anything and are willing to fall for anything, from radical ideologies to billionaires and socialists buying the nomination.

Hatred has hollowed out the Democrats, leaving behind nothing but a great empty void.

The primaries are the dark night of the Democrat soul. The party's soul has fed on poisonous hatred. Morning has come to America. But morning may never come to the Democrats divided in darkness.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

This article was first published by FrontPage Magazine and reprinted with permission from JNS.org. 

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Warren said that "the continued expansion of Israeli settlements and the increasing normalization of proposals for Israel to annex parts or all of the West Bank are the most immediate dangers to the two-state solution."

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"I will reverse the Trump administration's new policy on settlements, which upends 40 years of bipartisan precedent, and make clear that Israeli settlements violate international law," she continued. "And if Israel's government continues with steps to annex the West Bank, the US should make clear that none of our aid should be used to support annexation."

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) reiterated his stance that he would condition US assistance on Israel not annexing or expanding settlements.

Billionaire Tom Steyer said he would condition US assistance to Israel on settlements, in addition to pledging to reverse Trump's relocation in May 2018 of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the US embassy should remain in Jerusalem.

"The status of Jerusalem should remain a part of any negotiated two-state solution, and we should be mindful of both Palestinian and Israeli negotiators before deciding where the embassy should be," said Yang.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) have already stated they'd keep the embassy in Jerusalem, while Warren said last week that the embassy should be decided in negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Sanders said that moving the embassy back to Tel Aviv "would be on the table if Israel continues to take steps, such as settlement expansion, expulsions and home demolitions, that undermine the chances for a peace agreement."

On Iran, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren and Steyer reiterated they would re-enter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the Trump administration withdrew from in May 2018, while Bennet and Bloomberg said they would re-enter the agreement without preconditions.

Yang and Patrick said they "would seek a 'grand bargain' to resolve nuclear, missile and counterterrorism disagreements." In August, Yang said in a debate that "we have to re-enter that agreement and renegotiate the timelines because right now the timelines don't make sense."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org

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Bloomberg's team announced last week that the mega-billionaire is seriously contemplating a White House bid in 2020. He has already qualified to appear on the Alabama primary ballot and is scrambling to make Arkansas as well, which has a Tuesday deadline.

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Although his campaign is in its nascent stages, he's gained a valuable endorsement in Sheindlin, whose popular TV show, Judge Judy, nabs some 10 million viewers an episode.

"Parties have become so angry with each other that nothing is happening. The American public is paying for a very expensive system...and we're not getting anything done. Bridges, roads aren't getting built, because everybody is so busy hating each other. Michael Bloomberg is the only answer [to this problem,]" Sheindlin declared when speaking to comedian Bill Maher on his HBO show, Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday.

"If you think about it, Michael Bloomberg is the only person running who has over a decade of executive experience running the largest city in the United States," she added. "Let's say your doctor told you tomorrow, 'Hey kid, I hate to tell you this, but you need a new valve in your heart. Would you then look for the best podiatrist in town?"

Unimpressed with the analogy Maher retorted, "People vote with their gut. I like Mike Bloomberg...but I don't see a big city Jew exciting the vote in Alabama or a lot of the country."

Undeterred, the no-nonsense Sheindlin shot back, "But if we're talking seriously and looking at someone who has both the experience and has had the capacity in over 12 years to run one of the most diverse places in the world ... people should care about that."

"There is nothing wrong with a man that came from nothing realizing the American dream... To define @MikeBloomberg as a billionaire is an injustice." – @JudgeJudy #RealTime pic.twitter.com/5nC1xG3Jah

— Real Time (@RealTimers) November 9, 2019

Maher maintained that the election will be won in just a few key swing states, all places that are unlikely to fall Bloomberg's way.

"The election will be decided in a few states: Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania," he said.

He also pointed to Bloomberg's connection big money in Wall Street as a possible hindrance to him securing the nomination in a party that has begun to advocate for more socialist policies.

Ever optimistic, Sheindlin dismissed that take, saying, "You're always going to have naysayers. There's nothing wrong with a man who came from nothing, realizing the American Dream. I realized the American Dream - they put a 52-year-old woman on television that nobody knew and said, 'go be a star.' That's like winning the lottery. Nothing is impossible."

"To define Mike Bloomberg as a billionaire is an injustice. Mike Bloomberg was the mayor of New York and self-made guy," she said, sticking to her guns.

Despite there being only three months until the primary season begins, Bloomberg is thinking about throwing his hat into the ring because he's unconvinced the current crop of candidates can unseat US President Donald Trump.

As for Trump, he doesn't seem threatened by the prospect of facing another New York billionaire head-on.

"Little Michael will fail," Trump said at the White House, adding, "There is nobody I'd rather run against than Little Michael, that I can tell you."

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