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Bloomberg Wasted $1.2 Billion to Lose Every State He Ran In

I know, except American Samoa.

Michael Bloomberg’s toll keeps on climbing. Originally set at over $900 million, it has now climbed to $1.2 billion.

Mike Bloomberg spent more than $1 billion on his failed presidential campaign, according to filings on Monday.

The former New York City mayor ended his bid on March 4 but spent $176 million that month anyway, according to a campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

That set his roughly four-month campaign’s spending at more than $1.2 billion.

The Bloomberg campaign resembled a war in that it couldn’t stop spending money. How it managed to blow through $176 million on a campaign that he ended four days into that month, and which everyone knew was doomed even before that, is a true achievement.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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