Bloomberg Drops Out After Super Tuesday Gambit Goes Up In Smoke

This is what $500 million will get you.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that he was ending his campaign after failing to yield the Super Tuesday votes he had been banking on to jumpstart his self-funded campaign.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1294990

Shutting down his campaign will slow the economy.

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No hard feelings from me, as long as Bloomberg points his moneyhowitzer in the dotardā€™s direction. And I think he will.

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The Establishment will probably succeed with itā€™s coordinated effort to stop Bernie, by continuing to prop up Biden. Who will then lose badly to Trump. Itā€™s 2016 all over again.

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So it turns out the Democratic Party wasnā€™t for sale after all. At least not in the parochial sense.

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Yeah, that damned ā€˜Establishmentā€™.

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Keep telling voters that theyā€™re stupid. And donā€™t forget the snakes for Warren supporters!

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Does that mean that Tulsi Gabbard takes the American Samoa Primary? I know, delegates, pledged and superā€¦

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by convincing Democratic voters to vote for him

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You mean the voters?

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TV Station Ad salesmen are crying. Direct mailing companies, too.

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Or as I like to call them, the pesky rabble with all their fancy ā€œopinions.ā€

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Am I Samoa care about this?

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Well, then I guess it is all done. We move on, find a rocket ship, fly to another planet and begin to build a new world free of these mortal constraints.

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I guess thatā€™s what happens when you tell Dem voters if you donā€™t get aboard my wagon, we are going to call you French nobility and guillotine you.

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Some people have been saying heā€™s helping Sanders by splitting the moderate votes, especially during the last few days, but hereā€™s an opposite take I agree with. https://mobile.twitter.com/lynnv378/status/1235194018679619584
Also, some would say itā€™s ā€œriggingā€, I call it playing within the system. Iā€™m not happy with the result and even the process, but itā€™s not against the rules.

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I think the coordinated effort is to nominate a viable Democrat and beat Trump. And Iā€™m not in the Establishment (Iā€™m just an engaged Democrat, citizen, and voter), but I certainly consider myself part of the effort.

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Am I the only one who doesnā€™t consider Bernie a Democrat? He isnā€™t a member of the party he only caucuses with them in the senate. Why would I ever want to give my Partyā€™s nomination to a person who has resisted joining the party for 40 years? That is as bad a tRump taking over the Rethugs!

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Now would be a good time for a lot of you to stop it with the ā€œBernie Brosā€, ā€œSandernistasā€, ā€œSanders supporters are cultistsā€ talk. Consider refraining from gloating and donā€™t amplify anecdotal examples of Sanderā€™s supports acting like jerks. The moderate lane has had a free pass on disparaging Sanders supporters (Iā€™m not saying there isnā€™t nastiness on both sides), but it really is in all of our interest to cut it out.

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Good Riddance Mike

Just keep spending your money to defeat tRump

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