The left smells a rat in Bloomberg, Patrick bids

The left smells a rat in Bloomberg, Patrick bids-politico: Democratic donors say they want Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick to run for president because they’re petrified that a left-wing candidate can’t defeat President Donald Trump. But progressives see a more sinister effort afoot. Aides and allies to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, among other liberals, perceive the eleventh-hour campaign launched last week by Patrick, and the prospect of an impending Bloomberg 2020 bid, as an attempt to crush an ascendant left wing that would expand government more than any other Democratic president in decades.