By the time of Bloomberg’s statement, some 37,000 people had replied to Schultz, most of them urging the executive to drop the bid for precisely the vote-splitting reasons Bloomberg laid out. Schultz expressed a desire for people to “come together;” in this case, it appears they have.

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