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.
onesarahjones Over meanie and scared sh tless. Of the man with the bucks. She’s gone in my neighborhood passa Dina.
onesarahjones The media didn't cover her.
onesarahjones If all politics is theater than Bloomberg appears to have taken on the role of billionaire-punching-bag and it has given Warren the target she needed to step in the spotlight. Bloomberg might be Batman.
onesarahjones The question is not where has *she* been, the question is where has the media been?
onesarahjones Who cares
onesarahjones She’s been there the whole time!! Been talking about corporate governance forever. Not a lot paid attention until now.
onesarahjones I prefer “disemboweled.”
onesarahjones Ask CNN and MSNBC!
onesarahjones i like warren, i liked her a lot for a long time. somewhere during this campaign she started doing things differently, and i can't exactly put my finger on it.
onesarahjones Off the reservation...
onesarahjones She
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onesarahjones Never a good word. Its infuriating.
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