据美国《世界日报》21日报道，美国亿万富翁、前纽约市长布隆伯格退出总统竞选后，放弃了在11月大选前组建一个新的超级政治行动委员会，和为基层助选员提供资助的计划，而是决定捐给民主党全国委员会(DNC)1800万美元，用在关键州的选战上。
资料图：当地时间3月4日，美民主党总统竞选人、纽约前市长迈克·布隆伯格结束了自己短暂而昂贵的竞选之旅，并宣布支持前副总统拜登。图为布隆伯格1月22日在华盛顿出席活动。
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布隆伯格参选初期曾保证，他将资助民主党的基层助选工作，并一直持续到大选，他退选后又表示，他的多数基层助选员将继续留用，以作为独立的竞选组织为民主党的选举服务。
但结果是，他的两项保证都没做到，而是把他竞选账户的1800万美元转给DNC，以供DNC在关键州聘请助选人员。
布隆伯格的竞选团队表示，他们曾考虑设立一个独立实体，以支持民主党的提名人，但感觉独立实体在竞选的策略与执行上，无法做到与其他竞选机构的步调协调和统一，因此他们认为，在选前的未来八个月，最好还是为DNC提供帮助。
在竞选激烈的数十个州，布隆伯格的竞选团队已付清了办公室的租金，可一直使用到11月大选。这些办公室将转到各州民主党的名下，DNC将用布隆伯格的资助聘请助选员，其中将包括来自布隆伯格团队的经验丰富的组织人员。
布隆伯格团队在全国各地的上千名助选员日前参加视频会议，各州的竞选主任鼓励他们申请DNC的竞选工作，但获准后，他们的薪资待遇将不可能与在布隆伯格团队时一样。
布隆伯格给DNC的资助远超出个人捐助的上限，但DNC官员认为合法，因为是来自竞选团队的转账。个人为自己竞选团队的捐款不受限制，竞选团队给政党的转账也不受限制。
布隆伯格的顾问表示，为了总统大选中赢过现任美国总统特朗普，布隆伯格将继续资助民主党的选举。
布隆伯格3月4日宣布退选，并宣布支持前副总统拜登。他的竞选团队一直希望能组建新的超级政治行动委员会；在决定放弃这一计划后，竞选团队表示，这是为了避免太多的支出竞争。
Fight for the key state! US billionaire Bloomberg funded the Democratic Party with us $18 million
Bloomberg, a billionaire and former mayor of New York, quit his presidential campaign to form a new super political action committee before the November election and provide support for grassroots campaigners. Instead, he decided to donate $18 million to the National Committee of the Democratic Party (DNC) to fight in key states, the world daily reported Monday.
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Infographic: on March 4 local time, Mike Bloomberg, the Democratic presidential candidate and former mayor of New York, ended his short and expensive campaign and announced his support for former Vice President Biden. Bloomberg attended the event in Washington on January 22. Photo by Chen Meng, reporter of China News Agency
At the beginning of Bloomberg's election campaign, he promised to fund the Democratic Party's primary election support work, which will last until the general election. After he withdrew from the election, he said that most of his primary election support staff will continue to be used as an independent election organization to serve the Democratic Party's election.
But as a result, he failed to do both, instead transferring $18 million of his campaign account to DNC to hire candidates in key states.
Bloomberg's campaign team said they had considered setting up an independent entity to support the Democratic Party's nominees, but felt that the independent entity could not coordinate and unify with other campaign agencies in the strategy and implementation of the campaign, so they believed that in the next eight months before the election, it would be better to help DNC.
In dozens of contested states, Bloomberg's campaign team has paid off the office rent, which can be used until the November election. The offices will be transferred to state Democrats, and DNC will use Bloomberg's funding to hire candidates, including experienced organizational staff from the Bloomberg team.
The campaign directors of each state encouraged thousands of candidates from the Bloomberg team across the country to apply for DNC's campaign work, but their salary will not be the same as when they were in the Bloomberg team.
Bloomberg's funding to DNC is far beyond the limit of individual donations, but DNC officials believe it is legal because of transfers from the campaign. There are no restrictions on the contributions of individuals to their campaign teams or on the transfers of campaign teams to political parties.
Bloomberg's advisers say he will continue to fund democratic elections in order to win the presidential election over current US President trump.
Bloomberg announced on March 4 that he withdrew from the election and supported former Vice President Biden. His campaign has been hoping for a new super Political Action Committee; after deciding to abandon the plan, it said it was to avoid too much spending competition.
