Mike Bloomberg is finished
When Mike Bloomberg entered the race, it was a time when the media was insisting that Joe Biden’s campaign was dead on arrival. We all presumed that Bloomberg was trying to stop a divisive extremist like Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination, considering Sanders would likely find a way to lose to Donald Trump. But that’s all changed now.
Joe Biden won big in South Carolina, prompting most mainstream Democratic voters to align behind him. It looks like he’s going to come out of Super Tuesday with roughly half the delegates, which is a big win for him, considering we’re now heading into states like Florida and Georgia where he’s likely to dominate. At this point, the biggest hindrance to Biden locking up the nomination before the convention is Mike Bloomberg’s continued presence in the race.
Bloomberg was never going to win the nomination outright. He was always looking to keep everyone under 50% of the delegates and force a brokered convention, where he would try to wrest the nomination away from Sanders. But if you look at Bloomberg’s results so far tonight, he’s doing horribly. He spent big in North Carolina, but he didn’t even reach the minimum threshold for delegates. He’s going to come out of this with almost no delegates.
With Joe Biden clearly heading into the convention with a huge delegate haul, and Mike Bloomberg heading into the convention with very few delegates, there is no way the convention will hand Bloomberg the nomination. It’s over for Bloomberg. All he’s doing by remaining in the race is preventing Biden from getting over 50%, meaning we’ll have to go through the strife of a brokered convention before Biden becomes the nominee.
If Bloomberg’s initial goal was to make sure Sanders didn’t get the nomination, all he’s doing at this point is making it harder for Joe Biden to win the nomination outright. In such case, it’s time for Bloomberg to drop out and endorse Biden. Biden’s broad popularity, combined with Bloomberg running pro-Biden and anti-Trump television ads, would go a long toward getting Trump out of office in November.
