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The NPR Politics Podcast

Mike Bloomberg Drops Out; Demographics Of Biden's Supporters

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, News, Daily News

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden's victories on Super Tuesday illustrated the importance of campaign momentum. He won in several states where he had little to no campaign infrastructure and did not advertise. That was possible because of his commanding support from African Americans and older voters.

Also, Mike Bloomberg exits the race and Elizabeth Warren considers her future.

This episode: congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, demographics and culture reporter Juana Summers, and senior political editor/correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0

It's Dana here from the sunny west coast. I'd hoped and I'd prayed that the show I'd liked most would finally launch a daily edition

0:07.6

Which thankfully now has come to fruition. Before I was lost and of news a bit wary, the political climate had gotten quite scary

0:15.8

But the politics pod is now save the day decoding the truth from the din and the fray

0:21.3

So sit down relax and tip your hat to this glorious pod recorded at

0:26.2

234 p.m. on Wednesday March 4th things may have changed by the time you hear this enjoy the show

0:36.4

Very talented should we snap I feel like the English major in me appreciates the poetry

0:41.8

We all appreciate the poetry

0:44.8

Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress

0:48.8

I'm one of summers. I cover demographics and culture and I'm Dominican Montenores senior political editor and

0:53.7

Correspondent and the fallout from super Tuesday has begun. It's still falling

1:02.8

If you remember I entered the race for the president to defeat Donald Trump and today

1:10.4

I am leaving the race for the same reason to defeat Donald Trump because staying in would make it more difficult to achieve that goal

1:18.6

former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has ended his presidential campaign and had one of the shortest runs out of any of the two dozen candidates

1:26.2

We had so what did all of that money get him to minico?

1:30.1

Not a whole heck of a lot

1:33.5

I mean he only has 53 delegates he may wind up with more than that

1:38.0

But he spent half a billion dollars billion with a B that is a lot of money is only rivaled maybe per delegate

1:46.9

By Rudy Giuliani's 2008 campaign who spent about 60 million dollars for one delegate

1:53.2

That is a wild amount of money. Yeah, it's pretty spectacular

1:56.6

He'd invested in a number of states and was really banking on the early vote had this really impressive field organization

2:02.1

In the number of these states had more on the ground staffers than any other candidate and yet it is clear that this is not

2:08.8

This did not go the way that Mike Bloomberg is a to plan

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