Bloomberg News Pushes GOP To Embrace Gun Control Or Lose In 2020

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter

Not only is Michael Bloomberg prepared to spend $500 million in the 2020 elections to defeat Donald Trump through independent expenditures and donations to his gun control groups, he has his own media empire which will steadily be pumping out stories pushing Republicans to support gun control or else risk defeat at the polls next year. Bloomberg reporter Sahil Kapur seeks to push the idea that gun control is a losing issue for the GOP.

The 2018 election reflected a changing landscape on guns. Republicans were swept out of the House majority after losing suburban bastions where they were once dominant — in places like Orange County, California, and around Dallas and Houston in Texas. Voters in 2018 favoured stricter gun control by a margin of 22 percentage points, and those who did backed Democrats by a margin of 76 per cent to 22 per cent, according to exit polls. Gun policy ranked as the No. 4 concern, and voters who cited it as their top issue voted for Democrats by a margin of 70 per cent to 29 per cent.

And the mood has changed since 2016.

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Source:: Bearing Arms