The version of Elizabeth Warren that defenestrated Michael Bloomberg on live television is the version most voters initially got to know. onesarahjones writes
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Bloomberg may not have brought a box to stand on during last night’s debate, as President Trump suggested he might, but he may need one for next Tuesday’s event in South Carolina. Elizabeth Warren cut him off at the knees within the first five minutes of her opening statement. “I’d like to talk about who we’re running against, a billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’ And, no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump.
But Warren’s debate performance wasn’t just notable for its fundraising prowess. In her interactions with Bloomberg, Warren displayed a facet of her candidacy that has felt muted for weeks. As her campaign faltered, Warren made subtext into text. The idea that she could be a unity candidate, a bridge between the Democratic Party’s leftmost and centrist factions, has always been nascent in her campaign strategy.
When a woman’s campaign craters, as Warren’s has recently done, the failure invokes an old question. How much should we blame sexism, and how much should we blame the campaign itself? It’s a truism that Warren, indeed any woman running for office, faces gendered double standards that govern her behavior. If Warren strikes outward, sounds angry, she puts her candidacy at risk, or so the reasoning goes. It’s easier, still, for men to adopt hostile personas.
Warren then told press that Sanders “had a lot of questions to answer” about the behavior of his online followers.
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