{"id":193200,"date":"2020-03-04T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193200"},"modified":"2020-03-04T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:51:32","slug":"bloomberg-quits-presidential-nomination-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193200","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg quits presidential nomination race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-193201\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bloomberg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bloomberg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bloomberg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bloomberg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bloomberg-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and endorsed Joe Biden. Bloomberg says he&#8217;s doing so to help \u201cdefeat Donald Trump.\u201d It&#8217;s a stunning collapse for the former New York City mayor, who had pinned his 2020 hopes on the Super Tuesday states and pumped more than $500 million from his fortune into his ultimately unsuccessful campaign. Bloomberg announced his departure Wednesday after a disappointing finish on Super Tuesday in the slate of states that account for almost one-third of the total delegates available in the Democratic nominating contest. Some of his former Democratic rivals had coalesced around Biden as the moderate alternative to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.berg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and endorsed Joe Biden. Bloomberg says he&#8217;s doing so to help \u201cdefeat Donald Trump.\u201d It&#8217;s a stunning collapse for the former New York City mayor, who had pinned his 2020 hopes on the Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193203,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200\/revisions\/193203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}