Bloomberg Had No Place To Hide In His First Presidential Debate

VinceMcMahon, king of professional wrestling promotion, is probably jealous of the Democratic National Committee after seeing the Feb. 19 presidential debate from Las Vegas.

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders came out of the left corner to tag team Michael Bloomberg in a handicap match. They, she, throttled the former mayor.

Warren tagged Bloomberg as Trump-like. “I’d like to talk about who we’re running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg," she said with her opening remarks.

“Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk. I’ll support whoever the Democratic nominee is. But understand this: Democrats take a huge risk if we substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.”

She also attacked Bloomberg for his past record with female employees and nondisclosure agreements. He said he would not release women who worked for him in the past from nondisclosure agreements after Warren asked.

CNN’s Chris Cillizza saw Warren as a winner in the debate and expects her to outperform her current poll numbers in Nevada. Warren sits at 11.6 percent in the latest Nevada poll filed Feb. 19 just after the debate ended.

A national poll published early Feb. 19 had no one at 40 percent, Sanders 37 percent, Joe Biden 12 percent, Bloomberg 9 percent, Pete Buttigieg 2 percent and Warren .8 percent.

Sanders immediately positioned Bloomberg as representative of the multibillionaires most of the Democratic candidates on the stage have been railing about in all their previous debates.

CNN saw Sanders as a winner of the debate since the attacks on Bloomberg kept the pressure off the front runner, Sanders.

Despite buying all the consultants he could, the former New York City mayor seemed unprepared and lifeless on the big stage. His appearance was reminiscent of Richard Nixon in the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1959.

“Bloomberg’s predominant pose during the debate of looking bored, perhaps in a failed attempt to seem above the fray, was not a good look at all,” Baltimore Sun columnist David Zurawik said.

“Bloomberg does not seem to have spent much time or thought on his TV persona and how it might be perceived by the kinds of viewers it takes to win Democratic votes.”