Mike Bloomberg Tried to Buy the Election. It Didn’t Work.
Super Tuesday’s results were disappointing, but there was one bright spot: Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million attempt to buy the election completely and utterly failed. Any time a billionaire enters the national stage and eats shit, we must cherish it.
Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg walks out before speaking at his Super Tuesday event on March 03, 2020 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle / Getty
The results of Super Tuesday were a setback for Bernie Sanders. After Bernie’s sweep of the first three primaries, the Democratic establishment finally consolidated around Joe Biden, who took the lead after Tuesday’s primaries and left Bernie with a more arduous, though still viable, path to victory.
But democracy did score at least one unmitigated victory on Tuesday: Mike Bloomberg ate shit and suspended his campaign today.
“Mini Mike” poured half a billion of his own dollars into campaign ads (more than Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns spent throughout the entirety of 2016). In addition to Mike’s $500 million, billionaire hedge-fund executive Tom Steyer spent another quarter billion himself and garnered exactly zero delegates throughout the primary process before dropping out on Saturday.
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