Bloomberg to visit Fresno, Sacramento on Monday

Michael Bloomberg will visit Sacramento and Fresno during his fourth California trip since declaring his candidacy in late-November.

According to his campaign, the former New York City mayor and Democratic presidential candidate will hold public “organizing events” at three campaign stops on Monday. He’ll make an appearance in Sacramento early in the morning, go to Fresno later in the morning and then travel to Compton in the early afternoon.

Bloomberg has adopted an unorthodox strategy for the 2020 primary, skipping the four earliest voting states in the nation, spending more than $250 million on political ads and going all-in on California — the most delegate-rich state in the nation.

“Obviously we’re not in the first four states. Our Iowa is California. This is our first state,” said Chris Myers, Bloomberg’s California state director.

Bloomberg’s Monday trip across the Golden State comes on the same day dozens of counties will mail out their ballots to California voters. Sonoma County residents have already gotten their ballots in the mail.

Bloomberg is scheduled to meet with his Sacramento supporters at Old Soul at

The Alley around 7:20 a.m.

At a location yet to be announced in Fresno, he’ll be joined alongside his supporters and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. He’ll begin speaking around 9:50 a.m.

Finally, at 1:15 p.m., he’ll join Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs at the Dollarhide Community Center in Compton.

While Bloomberg is polling in the high single digits nationally, he’s seen mixed results in California — a state with scattered polling and wide-ranging methods for surveying likely Democratic primary voters.

The Public Policy Institute of California found Bloomberg at 1 percent earlier this month, though the group didn’t include his name as a rotated choice in live interviews, which could have contributed to an undercount. UC Berkeley, which conducted its survey online, included Bloomberg’s name as an option and found the mayor with 6 percent support statewide.

He needs at least 15 percent support either statewide or in a given congressional district to have a chance of picking up pledged delegates.

Bloomberg is worth an estimated $61 billion, according to Forbes, and is leveraging his limitless resources for his campaign. In the first two weeks of January alone, he spent more than $1 million on television ads in the Sacramento area.