While former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg had a disappointing debate, his candidacy is still viable because "money talks" in presidential elections, according to former Labor minister Stephen Conroy. Mayor Bloomberg appeared for the first time onstage at a Democratic debate, as voters prepare for the Nevada caucus.
Bloomberg has surged in the polls, spending well in excess of 200 million on television and online advertisements, dwarfing his Democratic rivals. However, he was widely seen to have had a bad night, with progressive firebrand Elizabeth Warren attacking his criminal justice record and his history regarding sexual harassment. Mr Conroy said Mr Bloomberg can "come back" from his "flat-footed, under prepared" debate performance.
MikeBloomberg Which little SKY socialist activist wrote that crap Bloomberg was just turned to dust .!
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MikeBloomberg No amount of money will make him beat Trump
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LisaMic75251596 MikeBloomberg Meanwhile in Australia bags of Chinese money doesn't get Labor pollies to be PM .
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Bloomberg is popular because of his 'I hate Trump policy' | Sky News AustraliaBillionaire Michael Bloomberg has been able to rise to the top of the Democratic field simply because of name recognition and his 'I hate Donald Trump policy,' says Sky News host Paul Murray. \n\nMr Murray said the American businessman is 'at one point in time going to have to stand opposite Democrat rivals on a debate stage' and 'explain things in his past'. \n\nMr Murray also said media in the US don’t want to 'call out' Michael Bloomberg for two main reasons, because they believe he may be able to defeat Donald Trump and because he spends “an awful lot of money buying ads”. \n\nImage: Getty \n\n\n Maybe 400 million in ads has something to do with it. 😂😂😂 rise to the top? Wait? What? Did he have 500 phone books to stand on? Straight to the top on name - just like Donald Trump.
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Bloomberg 'really riled up' other Democratic candidates | Sky News AustraliaThe US Studies Centre Research Associate Elliot Brennan says Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg “really riled up' the other candidates and they will be 'really chomping at the bit to rip into him”.\n\nThe Nevada Democratic presidential primary debate is set to run on Thursday and will be the first round to include former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.\n\nMr Brennan told Sky News “Bloomberg has just inserted himself into their homes” and it “really offended a lot of the Democratic candidates who have worked so hard and for so many months”.\n\n “A big challenge for a lot of these candidates as well is obviously the surge of Bernie Sanders,” he said. \n\n“They don’t want it to look like Bloomberg versus Sanders.\n\n'They don't want to write themselves off.'\n\nImage: Getty
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China has found a backdoor though Australia's coronavirus travel ban | Sky News AustraliaChinese travel agents are opening a backdoor into Australia that dodges the coronavirus travel ban by offering to send people to third-country stop-off destinations to wait out their quarantine.\n\nThe ban, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison imposed on February 1, prevents all non-Australian residents travelling from China from entering the country for 14 days after they leave the Chinese mainland.\n\nImage: AP Of course they are. A back door, that only sky news and not Customs/Border Force aren't aware of and can still say No entry? Nice fear monger headline! And this is how racism is born!!
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China's ‘encroachment’ into the South-Pacific ‘could cost Australia in the future' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peter Gleeson says the Chinese government is “playing a long game” by investing in roads, airports, ports and agriculture within South-Pacific countries. \n\nMr Gleeson said he was “struck by the growing influence of the Chinese” following a recent trip he took to the small, South-Pacific country of Fiji. \n\nHe said Fiji is just one of many countries in the geographical area who have enjoyed Chinese investment “booms” in the last two-decades. \n\n“The Chinese are playing a long game, they are investing in roads, airports, ports and agriculture, it is transparent and growing.\n\n“The Chinese have made it increasingly clear that it wants economic and political influence in the Asia and South Pacific”. \n\nMr Gleeson said the Morrison government should “pump extra foreign aid” to nearby countries “so they know we are their closest allies”.\n\n'There’s a great deal at stake on all this, especially for future generations”. \n\nImage: Getty \n So, what is so wrong Chinese government promoting great infrastructure within South Pacific? Pacific Nations are independent Nations they can choose, unlikely days of Europeans colonization,Pacific Nations were enslaved. Chinese is doing great things for Pacific. It's already too late,you were back mid 2019 that chins is to become an isolated country all provinces included..this idealism dates back to the world factory days that once held in the Chinese hippo era!(1300's) & Africa...colonizatian via indebtedness...
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‘Focus must remain on recovery’ even if bushfires aren’t 'front page news' | Sky News AustraliaNSW Finance Minister Damien Tudehope has called for the focus to remain on bushfire recovery, saying “it’s easy for this issue to go off the front page when the disaster is not there”. \n\n“It’s important that we keep the focus on the recovery process in relation to bushfires,” Mr Tudehope told Sky News host Peter Gleeson. \n\nMr Tudehope said from his perspective, as minister, “it’s important to be really involved in the recovery process”. \n\nHe told Sky News host Peter Gleeson many “tourist towns” in the state have done it “very, very tough” as a result of the bushfires. \n\n“There is a real stagnation of those businesses and a significant demand on governments to be able to respond to the trauma that those businesses are going through”. \n\nHe also said, “we all have a role to play” as he spoke of programs and plans designed to return “stimulus” and business back to impacted towns. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia Out of sight, out of mind & everyone falls back into the complacency cycle.
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