Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, has issued a warning to Democrats ahead of the next midterm elections saying they will be devastating if they don’t change tactics.
QUICK FACTS:
- Former New York Mayor Michale Bloomberg says if Democrats don’t course-correct they are headed for political disaster in November of 2022.
- According to The Epoch Times, the former Republican backed President Joe Biden in 2020 but is now calling on Democrats to find their base again.
- Bloomberg cited unexpected Republican wins in Virginia and New Jersey as well as recent school board upsets as proof that Democrats’ policies aren’t working.
- The former mayor made his comments in an Op-Ed for Bloomberg Media that was published on Tuesday, calling the upset a “political earthquake” that “should be a dire warning to the national Democratic Party.
WHAT ELSE BLOOMBERG SAID:
- “Swing voters will decide the 2022 midterm elections, and right now, polls show they are swinging away from Democrats. The earthquake that shook San Francisco needs to shake up our party before voters do it themselves in November,” Bloomberg said.
- “The school board members failed to show any urgency in reopening schools even when it was clear that doing so was safe—and that remote classes were leaving students further and further behind,” he added.
- “Voters need to hear from Democrats that schools remained closed for too long, and that improving schools means closing achievement gaps, not eliminating standards.”
BACKGROUND:
- The former mayor of New York referenced the upset in the Virginia gubernatorial race where Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, as CNN reported.
- In an even more dramatic upset, a truck driver was able to defeat New Jersey’s most powerful lawmaker, taking over for former State Senate President Steve Sweeney, according to POLITICO.
- Voters in San Francisco, thought to be one of the most liberal cities in the nation, overwhelmingly voted to remove three school board members because of the constant school closures and attention to progressive causes amid the pandemic.
