Tonight’s Democratic Presidential debate couldn’t be held in a better location than Las Vegas with how the race has been shaping up so far.
That’s because what keeps Las Vegas running is a lot of gambling and a lot of money.
And at tonight’s debate what is sure to come up is all the money former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has spent to get there.
He’s already sent hundreds of millions of his own dollars.
As Time magazine puts it,
His “wealth and spending alike dwarf the checkbook of the other billionaire still in the mix, Californian Tom Steyer, who did not qualify for tonight’s debate.”The writer from Time adding. “Bloomberg’s campaign seems to have limitless resources, replete with lavish spreads and open bars at his events.”
At the same time, PresidentTrump’s re-election campaign is reported to have already raised 525 million dollars, with a goal of reaching one-billion-dollars. At today’s fundraiser here in Southern California, donors will pay up to 250-thousand-dollars to attend the event with the President in Rancho Mirage.
They say you can’t win in big time politics without big time money.But while Mike Bloomberg and Donald Trump may end up being poster boys for that thinking, why didn’t Tom Steyer, who has spent hundreds of millions of his money on thousands of commercials not there on the stage tonight in Las Vegas?
There’s that old saying in politics about following the money. We may soon find out if it’s true.
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