Bloomberg ends presidential campaign after dismal Super Tuesday
The billionaire ex-New York mayor's campaign faltered after underwhelming debate performances and criticisms of his stop-and-frisk policing policy and past statements about women.
March 4, 2020, 9:12 AM CST
By Adam Edelman
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York City mayor who jumped into the 2020 presidential race late and spent over $500 million on an unorthodox campaign, has ended his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Bloomberg, who sat out the first four nominating contests in the Democratic primary, had banked heavily on success on Super Tuesday and afterward, pouring almost half a billion dollars (as of late February) of his personal fortune into ad spending in the states voting on and after that day.
But Bloomberg, a former Republican and independent who pitched himself as a moderate Democrat who could beat President Donald Trump, was not able to earn those votes effectively following the resurgence of fellow moderate former Vice President Joe Biden.
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