In Las Vegas all eyes were on Mike Bloomberg. He put in a flat-footed performance
In one sense, political debates are evanescent. Six candidates squared off in Las Vegas on February 19th—the ninth such debate—ahead of the Nevada caucuses on February 22nd. Then they will spar again on February 25th, ahead of the primaries in South Carolina and the delegate-rich Super Tuesday primaries. But some debates matter more than others, and the one in Las Vegas came at an important moment in the Democratic campaign to choose a candidate to challenge President Donald Trump.
Debates are not Mr Bloomberg’s strong suit. He is not particularly charismatic, and perhaps the world’s 12th richest man, the founder of one of the world’s most prominent media and finance companies, does not often encounter people who disagree with him. Still, his flat-footedness in responding to this predictable question was surprising. Over the course of the evening his performance improved.
Mr Sanders offers a starkly different view of the presidency: hectorer-in-chief. As usual, he offered bold visions without a hint of how he would enact them, other than to shout louder. Mr Sanders has never seen a complex problem without a simple explanation—Greed! Corruption! Billionaires! It is a form of Trumpism for the left, with pharmaceutical companies and billionaires for villains rather than undocumented immigrants and feckless elites.
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