This surprises me. I thought Bloomberg would be the instantaneous front-runner but he is down near the bottom of the pack. I guess the soda ban and other similar things don't count as leftist creds anymore. The left seems more concerned by the stop-and-frisk policies adopted by Bloomberg during his tenure as Mayor. God help you if you are pro law enforcement. Bloomy apologized for that policy that doesn't seem to cut the mustard.
Why would he be a front runner suddenly entering the race right now all of a sudden? that does not have any sound political analysis behind it.
Bloomberg is a formidable candidate, and it wouldn't surprise me if he is the nominee. He is the candidate of the Big Money, now that Biden is leaking oil. It helps that Bloomberg has more business cred than Trump but is far left on all the hot button stuff. Although he is an anti-Second Amendment zealot of the first order, he is not otherwise visibly crazy nor impaired, which sets him apart from the other frontrunners.
He doesn't seem to be getting any traction. I would have expected him to pick up some support by now.