Michael Bloomberg 2020 campaign megathread

[ElectionsGuy]

Wow, what an entitled prick. Hope he goes down in flames, but the mainstream media will probably prop him up so we'll see about that...

[ElectionsGuy]

Dem voters don't give a damn. As long as he can beat Trump...

[ElectionsGuy]

Dem voters don't give a damn. As long as he can beat Trump...

I don't know about that.

Not all Dem voters, obviously, but the ones who are backing him don't really care what he's said in the past or what policies he used to back. It's like how Trump used to give money to Hillary and other Democrats, his voters didn't give a crap about that.

[ElectionsGuy]

It's absolutely ludicrous that they think Bernie should be held responsible for his freak supporters on Twitter. Only Bernie's fanatics that have maybe 100 followers on average are made into this grand problem by the establishment hacks.

[ElectionsGuy]

He has the money to plow on through though. So not sure why folks are declaring him dead like he is relying on the intelligentsia and donors to keep him afloat.

He needed to at least put up a decent showing. He was a disaster. Even Biden, the supposed "paper tiger", was capable of holding strong when he was the front runner. Bloomberg was pathetic. Totally out of his league

If by holding strong you mean not falling apart, then yes I agree with you.

[ElectionsGuy]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-24/bloomberg-tops-half-a-billion-dollars-in-campaign-advertising
Bloomberg Tops Half a Billion Dollars in Campaign Advertising

Michael Bloomberg has broken the $500 million mark in ad spending more than a week before he appears on a primary ballot for the first time.

Through Friday, he’s spent $505.8 million on broadcast, cable, radio and digital ads, according to Advertising Analytics. That’s an average of $5.5 million a day since he officially became a candidate.

It’s also $190 million more than all of his active Democratic rivals combined, including billionaire hedge-fund founder Tom Steyer, have spent on political ads.

The former New York mayor’s primary campaign is the most expensive in presidential history.

Bloomberg is focusing on the states voting March 3 on so-called Super Tuesday, and beyond, when a majority of delegates needed for the party’s nomination are at stake. He had already saturated those states with more than $300 million in ads by the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.

He’s spent $63 million in California, twice as much as Steyer and almost 10 times what Bernie Sanders has spent.

Bloomberg’s $52.3 million ad campaign in Texas is 17 times greater than Sanders’s. His campaign’s ad buys in Super Tuesday states total $201 million, 15 times greater than Sanders’s.

$500 millions now.

He's basically spent a third of what Steyer's worth, and it's less than 1% of his net worth.