Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders sparred during Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, with the former South Bend, Ind., mayor calling the Vermont senator too “polarizing” to be the Democratic nominee, and Sanders taking a jab at Buttigieg’s big-money donors.
“We’ve got to wake up as a party,” Buttigieg said. “We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage. And most Americans don’t see where they fit. They’ve got to choose between a socialist who thinks capitalism is the root of all evil, and a billionaire who thinks money should be the root of all power.
Although he's running for the Democratic nomination for the second time, Sanders is technically an independent — the longest-serving independent in congressional history. Bloomberg is a billionaire former Republican who became an independent in 2007 and delivered a speech backing Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
Buttigieg then raised Sanders’s spat with Nevada’s powerful Culinary Workers Union, which has criticized the Vermont senator's approach to health-care but declined to endorse any of his rivals. Buttigeg also accused Sanders’s supporters of viciously attacking his rivals on social media. The Vermont senator has denounced such attacks.
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