By Matt Rooney
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It was one of the night’s more interesting moments, and I’m not talking about Joe Biden’s “150 million” gun deaths gaffe.
Responding to a Biden boast about having campaigned for Democrat House candidate, ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg stopped not short, but halfway through admitting to having “bought” twenty members of Congress.
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“Let’s just go on the record, they talk about 40 Democrats,” Bloomberg complained. “21 of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect. All of the new Democrats that came in, put Nancy Pelosi in charge, and gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I bough—I got them.”
Oops.
He didn’t get into specifics, but one of the Democrats Bloomberg helped big time in 2018 was candidate Mikie Sherrill (D, NJ-11). His super PAC spent over $2 million to help her win Rodney Frelinghuysen’s House seat; like a good little acquisition, now-freshman Congresswoman Sherrill recently reciprocated by endorsing Bloomberg for president. Bloomberg also gave to national Democrat groups which, invariably, also had an impact on the NJ-11 race.
His Independence USA PAC does get into specifics, listing Sherrill as one of his 2018 wins. Or purchases. Whatever.
Here’s the video:
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