nomination. so, by skipping those four states he kind of changes the map for everybody because he's going to focus on those super tuesday states where you have a number of states like texas and florida that are big numbers to try to get there to get his way into the field and really rise. so we'll see how he does with that. he's got a number of both structural challenges getting in late and he's got some -- although he's apologized for example for stop and risk, i think that's going to be a real challenge for him. >> the first sort of deciphering that goes on here is if he's in, who gets knocked. bloomberg is positioning itself it seems as a moderate in the democratic party. he thinks that bernie sanders and elizabeth warren have gone too far to the left. is he wrong, maria, do you think? >> well, again, i think that remains to be seen. i think one of the things that he does here in terms of his getting into the race is he is going to make voters really think about where they are