Vox - Elizabeth Warren's evisceration of Mike Bloomberg should make Donald Trump nervous

[TomCADem]

This is why Warren is much better candidate then Bernie. She is transparent. She released her health and tax records. She actually answers questions, rather than ducks questions about how much her plans cost and how she will pay for them. She is a Democrat. And, she does not have make up lies about other candidates to elevate herself. Finally, she is not complicit in supporting bullying or harassment by her supporters.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/19/21145018/nevada-democratic-debate-elizabeth-warren-mike-bloomberg

Turns out Mike Bloomberg is exactly what Elizabeth Warren needed to break through in the 2020 Democratic primary. And he’s not just a foil for her on the campaign trail — this is something she believes in, and it shows.

Warren was quick to attack the billionaire at Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Nevada, noting his Trump-like history of calling women “fat broads” and “horse-faced lesbians.” And the Massachusetts Democrat did not relent. She went after his history on stop-and-frisk policing as New York City’s mayor. She called him out for refusing to release from nondisclosure agreements women who have accused him or his employees of harassment and discrimination. Overall, it’s clear that Bloomberg is the one candidate she absolutely, positively, does not want to be the Democratic nominee.

“Look, I’ll support whoever the Democratic nominee is, but understand this,” Warren said on Wednesday. “Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.”

Beyond the ins and outs of the jabs on the debate stage, Warren’s disdain for Bloomberg and others like him is very real. Warren, like Bernie Sanders, isn’t just a critic of the “billionaire class,” she is a critic of a very specific type of billionaire class: those who used the advantages of an overly complex system to get ahead while everyone else falls behind.

[PatSeg]

1. And she doesn't use valuable debate time

reciting clips of her stump speeches. She actually answers and asks questions, at least when moderators give her a chance.

[blm]

3. Exactly. In one on one debates she will have time to really open the door on

Trump’s corruption.

And Mitch’s.

[PatSeg]

7. Yes

I wouldn't want to be on Warren's bad side. She has the facts on her side and she's not afraid to use them.

[pwb]

2. I hope she is our V. P. then President.

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[blm]

4. I hope DUers take the time to read this piece.

[RandySF]

5. She's have to be nominated first.

[BusyBeingBest]

6. What plays well among progressives doesn't necessarily translate to general election

votes.

[Red Oak]

8. Bloomies money is what they care about?

She gutted Bloomie on live TV.

He came off as a pompous entitled a** and it was well deserved.

I can't use Turbox tax (like you non-billionaire peons)

I worked hard and earned my money (unlike you that work three jobs and can't pay rent at below minimum wage jobs, get a life)

The NDAs were "consensual" (talk about a deaf ear)

Exactly how many NDAs are there? (crickets)

and, of course,

"“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians, and no I’m not talking about [President] Donald Trump, I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg,”

[Fla Dem]

9. You go girl, please let her poll # rise!

Warren has positioned herself as a folksy figure who has a plan for everything on the 2020 campaign trail, but as the primary goes on, OG Liz is coming out. It’s the Warren who called for “blood and teeth” on the floor in her fight to get the CFPB into the Dodd-Frank financial reform. The Warren who told Wells Fargo’s CEO he should be criminally investigated. The Warren who made so many enemies not only among Republicans but also within the Obama administration that she didn’t get the directorship of the agency she’d conceived of and fought for — and who then went into the 2012 Senate race in Massachusetts and won. She’s running for president to finish what she started when she got into government: root out the corruption she sees at the heart of so many of the country’s problems.

[Viz]

10. Dems of all stripes must thank Elizabeth Warren

for her coup de gras against Bloomberg. Yes- we are facing an existential
threat with drump getting another term but let's not as Democrats hand
the nomination to another billionaire who happens to be a Republican with
baggage. We can do better than that and we need to sweep him out of the
race as soon as possible. Elizabeth proved last night that a woman can LEAD this country
and make short shrift of drump. Go Liz!