Bloomberg made his smartest decision since he entered the race by dropping out. Joe Biden’s lead is pretty well established now. It would be difficult for Bernie Sanders to catch up.
At this time, Biden has a 65 delegate lead over Bernie. Assuming Warren hadn’t run and all of her delegates went to Bernie instead (way too optimistic, I know), Bernie would be within spitting distance of Joe. However, if you do the same with Bloomberg’s delegates to Joe, Joe regains a nearly a 60 delegate lead over Bernie. Very bad odds, especially since Florida with 274 delegates is sure to go to Joe, and so will Pennsylvania’s 186, considering it’s fracking country and Bernie wants to ban fracking within five years.
I was fortunate in that I missed most of Bloomberg’s advertisement blast. I believe I was only subjected to a single Bloomberg ad. I knew he was bad news so I never bothered to look into his policies.
The moment that really worried me on him during his second debate was when he claimed:
…I really am surprised that all of these — my fellow contestants up here… I’m surprised they show up, because I would have thought after I did such a good job in beating them last week, that they’d be a little bit afraid to do that.
Michael Bloomberg, 2020
That he can claim to have won despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary (Liz simply destroyed him) shows me that he’s willing to manipulate or flat-out ignore the truth the same way that Trump does. That’s dangerous.