Bloomberg made a 'yuge' mistake dropping out
By Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor — 03/07/20 12:01 PM EST
Michael Bloomberg and his team made two disastrous political decisions during his brief presidential campaign.
The first, and most stupefying, was agreeing to take the stage for the debate in Nevada. You know, the one where Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), now also out of the race, pummeled him into political pulp with her question about women who once worked for him and the nondisclosure agreements they signed after accusing him of sexual harassment. You could see it coming down Fifth Avenue in Bloomberg’s beloved New York.
With regard to the decision to step onto the debate stage, it was either one of the most blatant cases of political advice malpractice in the history of presidential politics or Bloomberg himself decided to bigfoot his team and unilaterally embarrass himself — against Warren, who herself had become a poster child for Walter Mitty invention and doublespeak.
That said, while Warren’s attack inflicted damage, it was not fatal to his campaign. Bloomberg managed to survive the blow precisely because the Democratic primary field was so weak, so disorganized, so flawed, so odd at times — so Bernie Sanders.
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