Buttigieg attacks Bernie and Bloomberg: ‘Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat’ – By Dylan Stableford (Yahoo) / Feb 19 2020
Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders sparred during Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, with the former South Bend, Ind., mayor calling the Vermont senator too “polarizing” to be the Democratic nominee, and Sanders taking a jab at Buttigieg’s big-money donors.
“We’ve got to wake up as a party,” Buttigieg said. “We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage. And most Americans don’t see where they fit. They’ve got to choose between a socialist who thinks capitalism is the root of all evil, and a billionaire who thinks money should be the root of all power.
“Let’s put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in an industrial Midwestern city,” Buttigieg continued. “Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat.”
Although he’s running for the Democratic nomination for the second time, Sanders is technically an independent — the longest-serving independent in congressional history. Bloomberg is a billionaire former Republican who became an independent in 2007 and delivered a speech backing Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
Pete Buttiegieg and Bernie Sanders. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News: photos: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)
“We shouldn’t have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out,” Buttigieg added. “We can do better.”
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