The Austin American-Statesman is reporting that anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg “will be spending about a million dollars a day the last week of the campaign on statewide advertising in Texas in both Spanish and English to help Democratic nominee Joe Biden defeat president Donald Trump.”
The newspaper said a chief Bloomberg advisor told the New York Times that Bloomberg wants to flip both Texas and Ohio. He has already committed to spending $100 million to flip Florida, making the race ever tighter.
The latest Rasmussen poll shows Trump at 47 percent with likely voters, while challenger Joe Biden has 49 percent support. With a 2.5 percent margin of sampling error, it is essentially a dead heat with one week remaining before the Nov. 3 election.
Bloomberg’s advertising will launch Wednesday in Texas and run through Election Day, the Austin newspaper said.
The American-Statesman reported, “Recent polls have shown Biden and Trump running neck-and-neck in Texas, but the New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday found Trump ahead by 4 points, 47% to 43% for Biden.”
But nobody is getting overconfident. Bloomberg and other big money sources are pouring fortunes into the effort to prevent the president from serving a second term. They have the added incentive of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. The president has now named three solid conservative justices to the high court and another four-year term could allow him to appoint another justice, and more federal judges to the lower courts.
According to Rasmussen, Trump was ahead in polling for the first time since mid-September.
Activists on both sides have been urging people to vote, and it appears voter turnout in early balloting is much higher than normal, underscoring the importance people are placing on this election.
