Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
Michael Bloomberg spent nearly a billion dollars in personal wealth on an unsuccessful bid for the US presidency. While personal spending is not limited by campaign finance laws, self-funded candidates often find it difficult to win elections.
Disciplines
Election Law | Law
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Richard Briffault,
Money Matters But It Doesn’t Decide: The Case of Michael Bloomberg’s Presidential Campaign,
Australian Outlook, April 9, 2020
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4465