Before Michael Bloomberg launched his 2020 presidential campaign, he was a respected former New York City mayor, an influential Democratic activist, and a darling of the liberal media. But after spending a whopping $1.2 billion on his late-in-the-game bid for the Democratic nomination and failing spectacularly, now Bloomberg is a national joke.
Bloomberg’s campaign ended more than a month ago, but he filed a Federal Election Commission report on Monday detailing $176 million spent in March as the campaign winded down, according to Politico. This is what finally pushed his total spending past the eye-popping $1 billion mark. All that spending procured pathetic results: Bloomberg won zero states, just the territory of American Samoa, and only a few delegates. Final figures show he spent roughly $17 million per delegate won.
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