on hand, which for a presidential campaign is going broke. ed: that s right. biden has money problems at a time plume wear bloomberg is pouring money. to be fair to biden, bloomberg will not compete in iowa or new hampshire. wouldn t really start until south carolina and hope to focus on super tuesday. some critics of bloomberg said, look he is too late, he doesn t meet the qualifications to get in the dnc sanctioned debates. might it be good to skip the debates since ratings are down and there a whole bunch of people at the bottom of the pack and nobody is breaking through? you re right, ed. there is not a lot of upside for bloomberg to the join the debates. first of all, very few people are watching. last ratings were down 50% from the very first democratic debate. people are tuning out. why is that? because by and large the candidates are boring. they all agree with each other on their far left opinions.
and, i ll tell you, i can see as a candidate who has been at this for almost a year, how seriously you all take the responsibility that comes with being an early state. so for now, the bloomberg plan is to let other candidates win, iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina and his billion will be looming on super tuesday, march 3. charles. thank you very much, peter. then there is this. mike bloomberg for president. jobs creator, leader, problem solver, it s going to take all three to build back a country. so bloomberg officially in, should be more worried, the president or democrats? with that, the wall street journal s james freeman, democratic strategist antoine and denine barelli, who is the biggest threat? feels like bloomberg is trying to run a general election
government. the billionaire bloomberg is joining the field with pete buttigieg likes to brag about he has the least personal wealth and joe biden brags about how decades, he had the least amount of money of anybody in the senate. mr. vice president, will mayor bloomberg focus on super tuesday change your strategy? no, i m in the race. but again, for now, biden and everybody else are chasing pete buttigieg, who just said he believes iowa goes first for a reason, a reason michael bloomberg must be missing. there is some process to kind of narrows the field, some committee somewhere decides, past this point, we ll trim it down a bit. but that committee actually, it is you, right? there is only so many tickets out of iowa.
is a crack in the firewall with the most loyal voter, i think joe biden is to lose. antjuan seawright. i woman competition, i will not bash him for making money. he s built a successful business. i think he made a mistake saying he will skip south carolina, where i think the true ball games begin. 55% women. the momentum out of south carolina, proof in 2008 and 2016 it helps going into super tuesday. you may not be ready to bash billionaires, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are. he is a formidable competitor both within the democratic party and if he makes it that far against donald trump. financial resources, but beyond that, real achievements to talk about when he was running this city. i think it s besides the obvious, i think it could be a threat to pete buttigieg, that contrast between michael
stop-and-frisk, and then see his record as solely defined by that. he reduced incarceration rates while he was mayor while the crime rate went down. no other city in the united states that stats measure up like that. once people get to know that story and look at his record, i think they ll change their minds. i do think there s a role for a big city mayor on a debate stage like that. he probably has more of a path than, say, bill de blasio did. but, look, i wouldn t be a strategist if i couldn t at least try to determine a path for him. and i do think there is one. narrow but it is. if you just forego the first four states, like he s sort of indicated he d do. focus on super-tuesday where you have states with big metropolitan areas. he can talk about things like gun control, climate change, all those things that he s put his money into already. but to your point, he gets he gets held up on that stop-and-frisk because a lot of this conversation around gun control will be by the rec