Opinion: Mike Bloomberg’s debate debacle — and larger campaign flaw
Which is so odd. Stephen Schwarzman, a co-founder of private-equity giant Blackstone, has a new book out, “.” It has a lot to offer the non-Wall-Street-addicted, including an interesting portrait of Bloomberg etched by a peer before Bloomberg’s decision to run. In Schwarzman’s book, Bloomberg appears as a dogged, successful entrepreneur, a relentless innovator and brilliant business executive.
Should that debate performance disqualify Bloomberg? No, but the hubris behind his disregard of debate prep might. Bloomberg has disdained invitations for extended interviews, including mine. Recall that in 2016, Donald Trump went everywhere, talked to everyone. Again and again and again. It was batting practice, and if Trump got hit by a few pitches he adapted to getting thrown at. Meanwhile, voters learned that he kept getting up after knock-down tosses. That mattered in 2016.
Bloomberg should have known better. He should have gone on every television and radio show and begged for longer formats to discuss more complicated subjects. You can’t explain the evolution of “stop and frisk,” or a parade of, in 45 seconds. Bloomberg needed practice and time. He needed to be able to refer to testimonies already in the record.
It’s striking how the Republicans of 2016 and the Democrats of 2020 — basically all the would-be nominees not named Trump — have allowed themselves to be"managed.” They have piled comms directors atop press secretaries atop speechwriters; they have scheduling teams and charts of minute-by-minute media encounters and back channels.What utter nonsense. When a Democrat decides to win, he or she will take the message on the road and talk to everyone.
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