Mike Bloomberg is out of the Democratic presidential race, but he’s not done trying to beat President Donald Trump. The billionaire businessman is funding an anti-Trump operation in six battleground states in an effort to oust the Republican president in November.
Bloomberg will dip into his vast fortune to pay for field offices in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, campaign aides said Thursday. It will be done through some type of independent expenditure committee that won’t be able to coordinate with any campaign, though aides are still figuring out the legal details and what the name and budget of the organization will be.
Bloomberg, a former New York City mayor, exited the race on Wednesday after a dismal performance in the 14 Super Tuesday states. He immediately endorsed Joe Biden.
“We’re not done with you yet, Donald,” he tweeted Thursday along with an anti-Trump video that said ”#GoJoe” at the end.
It’s unclear when Bloomberg’s new operation will launch and how it will shift if Biden is not the party’s nominee. Aides to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is battling Biden for the nomination, have said they do not want Bloomberg’s money, and Bloomberg has said he may not spend to help him.
Bloomberg is worth an estimated $61 billion and has already spent more than $500 million on his own campaign. The 78-year-old head of Bloomberg LP, the financial data and media company, has been one of the biggest donors to Democratic campaigns as well as causes such as gun control and climate change in recent years.
His pro-nominee operation will focus on boosting Democrats across the board, and a digital firm he founded last spring that offers a data-driven approach to ad creation and placement, called Hawkfish, will continue to operate.
Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are the six states that Bloomberg and his team believe will be pivotal in determining who wins the White House in November. Trump won all six in the 2016 election.
Although only one of those states, North Carolina, voted on Super Tuesday, Bloomberg’s campaign had already built an extensive organization in the other five in anticipation of remaining in the race longer.
(AP)
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Looks like mini Mike will use his giant bank account to help topple the impeached corrupt lying incompetent adulterer.
we should take a lesson at the extent a person will go due to kinah. mini mike said in an interview that most of trumps policys he agrees with, and now this guy is ready to spend billions not that he wins but that trump doesnt.
This sucker and losser mini Mike!!!
He is a jew, running away completely of Judaism, was a respectful NYC Mayer for years, is one of the 10 riches people in the whole world, and look at him 👀 he dedicated his whole life and over 2% of his wealth for one reason, just to mock our beloved most successful president in the whole US history!
This shows us people who have time to write comments on YWN that money doesn’t make it all and this should be a Torah lesson for all of us how low and dirty a person could go that he could spent over a billion dollars, not yet but he will spend that money only to bashmitz the president and he knows that it won’t affect the president a bit just the opposite…
Nebech! Nebech! Nebech!
One of the richest man in the world can’t enjoy a single second of his life the past half year and won’t enjoy till the day his pagira will be in the bais hakvures. Only because a tzveiter shouldn’t have….
Just expressing my thoughts on a high level…
A wonderful shabbos to everyone and may we be zoicha to a full Machias עמלק in full and we should get all of Bloombergs money in our bank account together with Simcha and nachas till mashiach comes.
“עם ישראל חי”