Bloomberg probably knew what to expect. He is not in it for delegate count except perhaps to deny anyone else a majority. He is running for the only delegates that matter, the superdelegates who will decide for the DNC’s preferred Candidate should no one get a majority in the primaries. It is much more efficient to spread money around to a much smaller number of voters, the supers, in order to purchase the position. Bloom was on the stage to register his presence, nothing more.
“He is not in it for delegate count except perhaps to deny anyone else a majority. He is running for the only delegates that matter, the super-delegates who will decide for the DNC’s preferred Candidate should no one get a majority in the primaries.
i think not, and here’s why:
On second and subsequent ballots at the 2020 Dem convention, it takes a minimum of 2,376 delegate votes to win a majority. There are only 775 unpledged (super) delegates, so even if mini-mike secures all 775 super-delegate votes (very unlikely), he still needs to win a minimum of 1,601 pledged delegates during the primaries/caucuses elections, meaning that mini-mike would need to win at least 41% of the total 3,979 pledged delegates available to be won during the primary/caucus elections ...
making that feat even more difficult, a candidate wins zero pledged delegates during a state primary/caucus if they don’t win at least 15% of the total votes cast by the electorate in that state, and the polls are showing mini-mike is barely meeting that threshold in most states, and these are polls taken BEFORE mini-mike’s disastrous debate performance ...
personally, at this point, i think mini-mike’s chances of being the Dem nominee are close to zero ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries