Coming off a bruising Democratic presidential debate in Nevada, MikeBloomberg campaigned in Utah seeking a reset
WASHINGTON/LAS VEGAS - The Democratic presidential contenders began a frantic dash for votes on Thursday, with big-spending billionaire Michael Bloomberg seeking to move past a bruising debate debut while several of his rivals jockeyed to be the moderate alternative to liberal U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
The former New York City mayor, who entered the race late and will not be on primary ballots until Super Tuesday, has tried to position himself as a moderate alternative to Sanders, a democratic socialist. “The Democrats should not appoint someone who has a history of embracing racially outrageous practices,” Warren told ABC’s daytime show “The View” when asked why she focused her attacks on Bloomberg rather than Trump.
At the debate, rivals Sanders, Warren, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg all piled on Bloomberg, who has surged in polls by spending hundreds of millions of dollars out of his own pocket on a TV ad blitz. Buttigieg’s campaign warned in a strategy memo on Thursday that Sanders must be stopped before he amasses an “insurmountable delegate lead” and that Bloomberg’s performance showed he was ill-equipped to do so.
It “raises the stakes enormously,” however, for Bloomberg, who is blanketing states with advertisements but has yet to show he can engage directly with voters and the media, he said.
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