THURSDAY 5 MARCH 2020Biden stands to benefit as
Bloomberg’s campaign ends
The former New York mayor has not secured the place in history he wanted (Getty)
CHRIS STEVENSON
The stats do not make great reading for Mike Bloomberg. One win out of 15 contests on Super Tuesday, the
small territory of American Samoa which brought five delegates, and probably less than 100 delegates in
total once the dust finally settles.
Taking the most generous estimates for how much the former New York mayor has spent of his fortune,
$500m (£389m) and 100 delegates (although he has likely spent more, and will get less) – that makes $5m a
delegate. A ludicrous amount. Take in the more than 2,000 staffers taken on across 43 states and the
massive push for television and digital ads across the country and you are looking at a mightily embarrassing
end to a campaign that was essentially a personal folly.
Bloomberg, worth tens of billions of dollars, set out his stall as someone who has the experience, the
personality and the financial clout to duke it out with Donald Trump on the national stage. The blanket TV