For my localization story, I plan to write about Bloomberg’s campaign and analyze its uniqueness. The fact that he got in so late, his dramatic advertising and campaign spending, his first appearance in the Democratic debate in Las Vegas, and recent news about his stop and search policies and comments he has made about women all make him an extremely interesting candidate in the 2020 election.

I will localize the story with Bloomberg’s campaign rally in Winston-Salem that happened last week (I attended this event). I plan to interview students who attended the event, an American Politics professor at Wake Forest, as well as students who did not attend the event but may have an opinion on the election and Bloomberg’s role (political science majors maybe?)

I hope to discover what issues are most important to students in the upcoming election and see if Bloomberg’s negative media portrayal (comments about women and stop and search policies in minority communities) will have any drastic effect on his potential success in the primaries / caucuses. With a current president who has a large history of comments like these, maybe we are entering into a new realm of politics where “taboo” comments are no longer a concern.

I also may dive into whether or not Bloomberg’s interesting campaign strategies will be perceived as successful or not by experts in this field.