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Joe Biden has a new electoral weapon in his campaign for the Democratic nomination: the hawk fish.
Hawkfish is a tropical fish that lives in coral reefs and measures, depending on the species, between 5 and 55 centimeters. But Hawkfish is also the Spanish name of 'Hawkfish', a 'big data' company, specializing in election campaigns, owned by Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and a media entrepreneur. 'Hawkfish' has 270 employees and only one client: the electoral campaign of its owner. I mean, from Bloomberg.
And today Bloomberg suspended that electoral campaign after having achieved poor results in the 'Super Martes', in which 14 states plus Democrats living outside the United States voted, and in which Joe Biden carried out a political resurrection of dimensions epic The former vice president with Barack Obama has spent five days from being a political corpse - no voters, no money, no speech - to becoming the leader of the Democratic race, where he has become the leader of the center of the party against the leftist Senator by Vermont Bernie Sanders.
His last rival in that ideological spectrum was Bloomberg. So the departure of the New York billionaire not only clears the ground to Biden and gives him around 10% - 15% of the vote that was held by Bloomberg. It also gives the candidate's resources. Because Bloomberg, which has an estimated estate of 60,000 million dollars (54.00 billion euros) has stated that it supports Biden, and that it will maintain and expand its electoral infrastructure to help it win Donald Trump in the November 3 elections .
Bloomberg has thus put 'Hawkfish' and its unlimited financial resources at the service of Biden. As the former candidate says in the press release in which he has announced his decision, "I entered the presidency campaign to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I abandon the campaign for the same reason: it is clear to me that staying would make that goal harder. " Bloomberg, who throughout his career in public life and in the private sector has never stood out for his humility, makes a profession of principles in the text, proclaiming that "I am very clear about my supreme goal: the victory in November. Not my victory, but that of my country. "
The fact that Bloomberg is going to continue operating with a campaign parallel to that of Biden is significant, because it mimics the strategy of Robert Mercer, the billionaire of Wall Street who has been key in the victory of Donald Trump in 2016 and in the triumph of the Brexit Instead of donating money, as other millionaires have done - for example, brothers David and Charles Koch in the Republican Party, or Bloomberg and George Soros himself in the Democrat -, Mercer, supported by his daughter, Rebekah, has created businesses independents - the Breitbart website and the Cambridge Analytica consultancy - that have helped campaigns but from the outside.
Now, data is not everything. Not even the money. 'Hawkfish' has not prevented Bloomberg from having to retire without winning a primary. The 559 million dollars (501 million euros) spent by the billionaire former mayor only on television ads (407 million) and the internet (152 million) had only allowed him to reach 50 delegates of 1,112 last night which had already been distributed among the candidates. It is a catastrophic result. Bloomberg has spent more than everyone else together , and is fourth in delegates, behind Biden (560), Sanders (518) and even Elizabeth Warren, the other leader on the left, who is 53.
The importance of the useful vote
The contrast is even greater because the most distinctive sign of the Biden campaign has been the lack of money. The great Democratic donors of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have not supported him, but other center candidates who have already retired, such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Buttigieg himself. Biden has won by the useful vote. It has no charisma. He looks very old. And it lacks money . But money, precisely, is not everything. The president, Donald Trump, nailed what happened to Bloomberg: "There is one clear thing: You cannot buy an election." So, even if he has the dollars and the Bloomberg organization, Biden is going to have to keep sweating in the field.
In addition, even if Biden wins, it is unlikely that he will get the absolute majority of the delegates to the Democratic Party Convention held in July in Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin. And, if Sanders manages to turn the situation around and ends up imposing himself, he won't have the majority either. That augurs a chaotic Convention, split between two irreconcilable and very different sides, especially from the point of view of age. Those under 35 are mostly with Sanders. Those over 50, with Biden.
For Trump, that is not a bad scenario. The president is defending Sanders as if he were from his own party , because he thinks that, if that is the candidate, the centrists - including many center Republicans - who reject him for what they consider aggressive rhetoric and a policy that ignores the consensus in a systematic way, they will end up supporting him for fear of the senator's leftism by Vermont. Trump's trolls on the internet have attacked Biden, Bloomberg, and Buttigieg, but never Sanders. And yesterday, in the White House, the president once again expressed his support for the leader of the left by even asking Elizabeth Warren to retire so that his voters leave with Sanders. Biden is tougher for Trump, because he attracts more to the center. But a democratic civil war may be the only thing the president needs to secure another four years in the White House.
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