In two new national polls appearing today, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is experiencing a jump in support attributable to his massive ad spending. In the huge Morning Consult tracking poll, Bloomberg’s up to 5.3 percent. Last week in the same survey he was at 2.4 percent. Similarly, in the HarrisX/Hill poll, he’s doubled his support from three percent two weeks ago to six percent now.

Now that’s just two polls — neither of them gold standard — but even in meh-quality surveys trends matter. And it’s probably shocking to supporters of candidates (e.g., Kamala Harris, who is even with Bloomberg in the Morning Consult survey and far behind him in HarrisX/Hill) who have been in the race forever that this Mikey-come-lately and ex-Republican is outpacing them anywhere.

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