How Bloomberg Blew it In Las Vegas
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday night, 6 of the remaining Democratic candidates faced off in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucuses. All eyes were on former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, despite sitting out the early contests and appearing in none of the previous debates, has surged in many polls thanks to a relentless self-funded ad campaign. Would he live up to his own hype?
In a word, no. Bloomberg was unprepared for the barrage of attacks he faced from all sides, and suffered especially from a set of withering takedowns at the hands of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Intercept DC bureau chief Ryan Grim joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss Bloomberg’s debut performance and how the debate might affect the race going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | We are not going to be Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many non-disclosure |
| 0:07.0 | agreements and the drip drip drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and |
| 0:13.7 | discriminated against. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan and that was Senator Elizabeth Warren at the |
| 0:27.0 | 9th Democratic Debate in Las Vegas which unlike the other 8 was actually a debate. |
| 0:33.5 | You're on the committee that oversees border security and we're not able to speak to |
| 0:38.4 | literally the first thing about the politics of the country to ourself. |
| 0:41.9 | Are you trying to say that I'm dumb or are you mocking me here, Pete? |
| 0:46.1 | So who won the debate? |
| 0:47.4 | Was it just Warren, Warren and Sanders? |
| 0:50.4 | And what happened to the man from the ads? |
| 0:52.5 | The man with the billions, former Republican mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. |
| 0:59.8 | Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop and frisk which went after African |
| 1:05.9 | American and Latino people in an outrageous way. |
| 1:09.0 | I think we need something different than Donald Trump. |
| 1:11.8 | I don't think you look at Donald Trump and say we need someone richer in the White House. |
| 1:15.8 | I like to talk about who we're running against. |
| 1:18.4 | A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians. |
| 1:24.5 | And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg. |
| 1:28.7 | That's how last night's debate kicked off. |
| 1:30.5 | Literally the first thing that Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren did |
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