I’ve had 20 years of Hell over pool death: Barrymore
JOE Biden was the big winner as New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign yesterday and endorsed the former vice-president, while Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her candidacy.
Mr Bloomberg quit the race that will determine Donald Trump’s opponent in November just over 100 days after he got in, despite pouring more than $500m of his personal fortune into his campaign.
The massive investment only netted him a win in American Samoa.
Mr Bloomberg joined Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke as former Democratic presidential contenders to endorse Joe Biden.
The development came just hours after a resurgent Mr Biden scored Super Tuesday victories from Texas to Massachusetts, revitalising a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster just days earlier.
Mr Biden and Mr Bloomberg spoke yesterday morning, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Mr Biden’s rival Bernie Sanders seized the biggest prize with a win in California that ensured he, and his embrace of democratic socialism, would drive the Democrats’ nomination fight for the foreseeable future.
Ms Warren, Mr Sanders’ progressive ally, was huddling with advisers yesterday to determine if there was a reason to stay in the race after her Super Tuesday wipe-out.
She did not win a single state and finished in third place, after Mr Biden and Mr Sanders, in her own home state of Massachusetts.
Suddenly, the Democratic Party’s presidential field, which featured more than a half-dozen candidates a week ago, transformed into effectively a twoman contest.
Mr Biden and Mr Sanders, lifelong politicians with starkly different visions for America’s future and who are older than the current president, were locked in a delegate fight a day after 14 states and one US territory held a series of high-stakes elections that marked the most significant day of voting in the party’s presidential primary.
It could take weeks, or months, for Democrats to pick one of them to take on President Trump in the November general election.
But the new contours of the fight between Mr Biden and Mr Sanders crystallised as the former vice president and the threeterm Vermont senator spoke to each other from duelling victory speeches delivered from opposite ends of the country on Tuesday night. “People are talking about a revolution. We started a movement,” Mr Biden said in Los Angeles, knocking one of Mr Sanders’ signature lines.
Without citing his surging rival by name, Mr Sanders swiped at Mr Biden from Burlington, Vermont.
“You cannot beat Trump with the same-old, same-old kind of politics,” Mr Sanders declared, ticking down a list of past policy differences with Biden on social security, trade and military force.
“This will become a contrast in ideas.”
Mr Trump went on Twitter on Wednesday to call Mr Biden’s strong Super Tuesday showing “a perfect storm” and amplify his long-running argument that the Democratic Party would move to stop Mr Sanders from winning the nomination.
“The Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders, again!” Mr Trump tweeted.
Mr Trump also called Warren “selfish” for staying in the race because it “hurts Bernie badly”.
MICHAEL Barrymore has said nobody who was at his house on the night of Stuart Lubbock’s death knows what happened.
Mr Lubbock’s body was found in the swimming pool at Barrymore’s then-home in Roydon, Essex, on March 31, 2001.
Barrymore wants another investigation into the 31-year-old’s death by a new police force.
The 67-year-old told ITV’s Good Morning Britain he is going through “pain and agony” and called Channel 4’s recent programme Barrymore: The Body In The Pool “vile and vicious”.
Asked if he had anything fresh to offer police, he said: “I honestly wish I did”, adding that he had been “through 20 years of Hell”.