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Lee Drutman

Bloomberg spent $241 for every vote he got on Super Tuesday.

Sarah Frostenson

And as a refresher Bloomberg spent $1 billion on his presidential run in total. And as you can see in the chart below it didn’t make a difference in the end. That Nevada debate really did sink him. Money can get you a lot of things in politics, but not everything.

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

As Bloomberg is talking, I am having flashbacks to one of my last primary campaign trips before the pandemic started, where I spent a morning in his extremely opulent Los Angeles campaign office. It was … surreal. There was a terrarium wall.


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