After having pledged to help defeat President Donald Trump, Bloomberg has been largely a nonentity on the general election landscape considering his massive primary season spending, according to campaign finance records ending in May. And a Bloomberg spokesperson did not provide an answer on how much more the 78-year-old is willing to spend to boost Biden when responding to a request for comment this week…
“He made a lot of pledges at the beginning,” said Rebecca Katz, a progressive Democratic strategist. “…’I’m going to do all these things for my staff, I’m going to do all these things for the Democratic party, I’m going to help the nominee.’ And he got great, great press for it. And then he just decided not to.”
The day after Super Tuesday in March, when the billionaire bowed out of the race, he pledged in a statement to “not walk away from the most important political fight of my life.” But according to federal election commission records through the end of May, Bloomberg hasn’t shown he’s willing to spend anywhere near the kind of cash he invested into his own campaign to help former Vice President Joe Biden’s effort.
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