This was a live thread for the Vegas Democrat Presidential Primary Debate.



While everyone was busy attacking one another, only Mayor Pete used his time to chip away at Bernie’s vernier, though I doubt Mayor Pete benefits in the end.

Sanders got out almost completely unscathed, minus a blow from Bloomberg, who called him a communist (kind of), and a question asking about his health post-heart attack.

Bloomberg was completely annihilated in the first few minutes of the debate and didn’t perform much better for the remaining endless hours. That said, with his gazillions, he’s probably the most viable Not Bernie on stage at this point.

As for Warren, she had nothing to lose and came out swinging. Will likely give her campaign one last wind before it peters out.

Debate reaction and happenings:

Sanders gets out, mostly unscathed:

While Klobuchar and Buttigieg are going after each other and as everyone goes after Bloomberg, Sanders is doing little to jeopardize his status as the frontrunner in Nevada — Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) February 20, 2020

Looks like this is still Sanders’ to lose:

Buttigieg & Klobuchar *combined* have less than Sanders, & combined they have less than Biden, in today's ABC/WaPo poll. What is happening? — Taniel (@Taniel) February 20, 2020

Warren, with nothing to lose, took Bloomberg to task over allegations that women at his company were treated poorly:

Warren on Bloomberg's defense of past sexist comments: "I hope you heard what his defense was, I've been nice to some women." — Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) February 20, 2020

Read about those allegations against Bloomberg here: https://t.co/n8yHyuptCP — MJ Lee (@mj_lee) February 20, 2020

And then there’s the issue of Bernie’s heart attack:

Bernie asked about why he won’t release all of his medical records following his heart attack: pic.twitter.com/TcAN8MJgX1 — Benny (@bennyjohnson) February 20, 2020

Everyone wants to see Bloomberg’s tax returns:

Mike Bloomberg pressed on disclosing his tax returns: "We're releasing them. They'll be out in a few weeks." He says it takes a long time and he "can't just go to TurboTax." — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 20, 2020

Smart:

Which makes sense! The rest of these people attacking each other makes no sense. https://t.co/VOpuxH2lwL — Karol Markowicz (@karol) February 20, 2020

Not like the Bernie Bros care about important things like facts:

One reason @SenSanders is ahead is that he's the only candidate up there who didn't have to start his campaign by apologizing/disavowing for something big and substantive in his previous record — Charles Lane (@ChuckLane1) February 20, 2020

This seems easily avoidable:

Bloomberg just said in the #DemDebate that he had been in favor of Obamacare. But in 2010 he called it "a disgrace." Here's the citation: https://t.co/9bxSkH638j — Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) February 20, 2020

Pretty much:

Elizabeth Warren on the #DemDebate stage like pic.twitter.com/AxAohJxWFz — Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) February 20, 2020

They say this like being a billionaire is a bad things:

Elizabeth Warren: "America takes a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another." — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 20, 2020

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Buttigieg: “A socialist who thinks money is the root of all evil, and a billionaire who thinks money should be the root of all power… one candidate wants to burn this party down, and another wants to buy it." pic.twitter.com/pcz7SKeT9I — Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) February 20, 2020



