Gabriel Sherman: “After Joe Biden’s decisive victory in South Carolina on Saturday, Mike Bloomberg’s campaign advisers lobbied Bloomberg to drop out of the race and endorse Biden before Super Tuesday… Some of the sources said that campaign manager Kevin Sheekey and other top campaign officials argued to Bloomberg that the best chance of beating Donald Trump in November would be for Bloomberg to exit the race to bolster Biden’s candidacy as Biden battles with Bernie Sanders for the nomination.”
Said one Bloomberg adviser: “There is a prevailing view Mike should drop out.”
“Campaign officials are privately frustrated that Bloomberg rejected their advice to drop out and pour their resources into helping Biden.”
Said an adviser: “Mike is a data guy, and he’s looking at the numbers thinking, I’ll be damned if I walk away before a single vote is cast for me.”
