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Bloomberg is the one candidate that would drive Sander's supporters to not vote or vote Trump. It would be suicide for the democratic party to choose him.
Are you sure Warren doesn't have the same effect? Or have we accepted she's a non-starter yet?

Bloomberg seems the most likely to leach Trump's own supporters, but he'll also turn off a lot of the Socialist and Social Democrat base Bernie and Warren have. Having elected Bush, Obama and then Trump I don't see the American electorate going for a socialist candidate unless they're also white, male and a protestant. There's a reason Conservative parties like the GOP/Tories tend to be able to "stealth in" the first female/ethnic minority candidates.

Obama is really the exception that proves that rule, as whilst he adopted a Chicago-centred African-American identity he's not actually African-American so much as he's an American with an African father.