Post by rmarks1 on Mar 4, 2020 22:06:26 GMT -5
Mike Bloomberg’s landslide of campaign cash didn’t lead to a landslide of votes — but boy did he spend big.
The New York billionaire laid out roughly $550 million in just over three months of campaigning, all to get a paltry 44 delegates — barely a tenth of what Democratic primary front-runner Joe Biden got.
That record total equals roughly $4.8 million per delegate. If he spent at that rate for all of the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination, it would have cost him $9.5 billion to face President Trump.
Bloomberg spent a mind-boggling $5.4 million a day.
He spent about $227,000 — which is a little less than three times the average American household’s annual income — every single hour.
Since he only got only about 1.6 million votes, Bloomberg wound up paying about $324 for each one cast in his name.
At the rate he spent, Bloomberg could have bought a Lamborghini Huracan sports car every hour, 24 hours a day for his whole campaign, which at least would have given him something nice to ride in when he drove over to Biden’s headquarters to endorse him.
Bloomberg spent enough to pay for the entire New York Knicks 2020 payroll five times over — and would have actually been buying a team with somewhat more success than his campaign.
He spent enough to buy his daughter Georgina another $4.5 million Westchester equestrian estate every day — with some cash left over for some nice horses.
In California alone, Bloomberg spent $41 million, enough money to give every homeless person in the state $271.
He also spent $33 million in the Texas primary, a sum that the famously gun-hating pol could have used to buy back nearly 20,000 assault rifles in the state instead of using to come in 20 percentage points behind the winner, Biden.
Not to worry, though: After spending half a billion on the campaign, Bloomberg still has $58 billion left to keep a roof over his head.
nypost.com/2020/03/04/heres-how-much-mike-bloomberg-blew-on-his-campaign-flop/
The New York billionaire laid out roughly $550 million in just over three months of campaigning, all to get a paltry 44 delegates — barely a tenth of what Democratic primary front-runner Joe Biden got.
That record total equals roughly $4.8 million per delegate. If he spent at that rate for all of the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination, it would have cost him $9.5 billion to face President Trump.
Bloomberg spent a mind-boggling $5.4 million a day.
He spent about $227,000 — which is a little less than three times the average American household’s annual income — every single hour.
Since he only got only about 1.6 million votes, Bloomberg wound up paying about $324 for each one cast in his name.
At the rate he spent, Bloomberg could have bought a Lamborghini Huracan sports car every hour, 24 hours a day for his whole campaign, which at least would have given him something nice to ride in when he drove over to Biden’s headquarters to endorse him.
Bloomberg spent enough to pay for the entire New York Knicks 2020 payroll five times over — and would have actually been buying a team with somewhat more success than his campaign.
He spent enough to buy his daughter Georgina another $4.5 million Westchester equestrian estate every day — with some cash left over for some nice horses.
In California alone, Bloomberg spent $41 million, enough money to give every homeless person in the state $271.
He also spent $33 million in the Texas primary, a sum that the famously gun-hating pol could have used to buy back nearly 20,000 assault rifles in the state instead of using to come in 20 percentage points behind the winner, Biden.
Not to worry, though: After spending half a billion on the campaign, Bloomberg still has $58 billion left to keep a roof over his head.
nypost.com/2020/03/04/heres-how-much-mike-bloomberg-blew-on-his-campaign-flop/
Bob
