Billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced his withdrawal from the presidential race and supported Biden

Billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has left the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after losing the party's branch primaries. The politician announced this on social networks.

“Three months ago I announced my nomination to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I am leaving the presidential race for the same reason: to defeat Trump, we need to unite in support of the candidate who has the most chances. And this is my friend and real American Joe Biden, ”the politician wrote.

During "Super Tuesday" on March 3, which distributed a third of all delegates to participate in the final meeting of the party, Bloomberg managed to win only in the overseas territory of American Samoa. In the remaining 14 states, he scored the least of the four remaining candidates (only in Colorado did he manage to share second place with Biden).

In total, according to various estimates, the billionaire spent from 400 to 500 million dollars on his campaign. As the media noted , he was betting specifically on the states where the voting took place on March 3: in the first four states where the voting took place in February, he did not agitate voters at all. ) . The New York Times calculated that on some days in the Super Tuesday states, Bloomberg's campaign ran three out of four political ads on TV (several times he was surpassed in this indicator by billionaire Tom Steyer, who retired from the race