Silicon Valley has emerged as a battle of Bernie vs. Bloomberg ahead of Super Tuesday.
, who works as a mid-level software engineer at Amazon in Arizona, was registered as a Republican in 2016. But he switched his affiliation this election cycle so he could vote for Sanders in his state's Democratic primary on March 17. Michaelsen donated more than $2,000 to the Sanders campaign after a friend encouraged him to take a deeper look at the candidate's positions, including on Amazon's taxes.
Democratic presidential candidate, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks to supporters at a rally on February 20, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah.Even Bloomberg favors raising taxes, a necessary position for any Democrat who hopes to win on a national stage. Bloomberg supports repealing Trump's tax cut to high-income earners, and he and Sanders are both in favor of raising the capital gains tax rate so that it's treated like ordinary income.
"I pine for a time when people's productive attention was not consumed by the daily chaos," said Wolfe, who's lived in New York his whole life, including during Bloomberg's 12-year tenure as mayor. "I saw a mayor that was rational and surrounded himself with people who were confident, not corrupt and held to high standards."
Benham is 31, single and lives with roommates in San Francisco. He supported Sanders in 2016 and has already voted for him ahead of Super Tuesday. He said he'll do phone-banking for whoever wins the Democratic primary, but his preference for Sanders is based on what he calls 30 years of a consistent message around economic justice.
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