Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's onetime rival, billionaire Mike Bloomberg, will spend $100 million to get Biden elected in Florida.
"[A] more competitive Florida contest is good news for Pres. Trump, who can't afford to lose this state," Cook's national editor Amy Walter wrote in a blog post. "Even so, many Democrats never expected Biden to be able to win here, having long written off the Sunshine State as a loser." was expected to go up with TV and digital commercials in early September in the battleground states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
President Trump went after Bloomberg on Twitter on Sunday morning in an apparent reaction to the news. "In the highly competitive world of high tech, how come nobody has ever challenged Mini Mike Bloomberg and his very average, [and] supposedly outdated, 'stuff' that he sells to so many?" Trump wrote onBloomberg nearly $1 billion of his own money on his own failed presidential bid, which lasted less than five months and ended without him winning any major primary contests in the Democratic primary season.
Before ending his campaign in March, Bloomberg faced a wave of accusations that he was trying to "buy" his way to the Democratic nomination. The former mayor, whose net worth is estimated to exceed $60 billion, flooded the airwaves with $550 million in advertisements. That included $224 million for Super Tuesday states.
Out of the 1,000 delegates up for grabs, Bloomberg only took dozens and failed to pick up wins in any major states. Instead, he only won the American Samoa caucuses.Fox News' Paul Steinhauser, Sam Dorman and Kelly Phares contributed to this report.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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