Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren are having a rough night
The two big combatants in a crucial debate in Las Vegas aren’t doing well on Super Tuesday. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images The big narrative of the evening, as Super Tuesday votes roll in, is Joe Biden challenging Bernie Sanders’s front-runner status and perhaps winning more delegates on the night than his progressive rival.
But aside from the battle for first place between Biden and Sanders, the other big issue on Super Tuesday was the performance of the two other major candidates who have not dropped out: Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren. The former candidate famously spent an unprecedented amount of money in the Super Tuesday states, while the latter was national front-runner not that terribly long ago and was reputed to have built a formidable organization across the country.
So far the results for Bloomberg have been, in a word, terrible. He fell far short of expectations and relatively recent polling results in every state that has reported significant votes so far. His numbers might look better in states with big early voting percentages. But it’s pretty clear he’s been dropping like a rock from the precipice of his upward trend lines before that disastrous debate performance in Nevada on February 19.
Running even with Bloomberg in states like Virginia initially brightened Elizabeth Warren’s prospects, until a home-state disaster began to go down: In both raw votes and the exit polls, she’s running third behind Sanders and Biden — who are battling for the lead — in Massachusetts. No matter what else she accomplishes on Super Tuesday , it will be difficult for her to overcome that disappointment. And that’s arguably good for Bernie Sanders, even as Bloomberg’s swoon help Joe Biden.
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