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.