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Democratic voters at watch parties unimpressed by Bloomberg's first debate performance
NBC "News" ^ | February 20, 2020 | By Tyler Kingkade, Erin Einhorn, Anita Hassan and Mike Hixenbaugh

Posted on 02/20/2020 7:43:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

SUBTITLE: "He's toast," said Dwight Clarke, 70, of Los Angeles, who viewed the event at The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood, California.

LOS ANGELES -- One after another, Democratic presidential candidates took turns at the start of their latest debate to take shots at former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. And each time, the crowd at The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood, California, reacted with uproarious cheers.

They cheered when Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., criticized Bloomberg for having spent his way onto the debate stage, and when Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said the party should nominate "someone who is actually a Democrat" - referring to Bloomberg - the crowd laughed and clapped again.

The applause at the West Hollywood watch party, hosted by the local chapter of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, reached a peak when Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Bloomberg whether he would release former female employees from nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, legal contracts that prevent someone from talking publicly about an incident, usually signed in exchange for money.

"He looked pathetic," said Sara Rosenstock, 60, of Los Angeles. "He didn't look like his commercials."

Rae Sanni, who grew up in Brooklyn but now lives in Los Angeles, felt Bloomberg transformed New York into a "rich people's playground" and didn't care for poor people or people of color.

"That speaks to an aloofness and a removal and a lack of relatability that I don't want," said Sanni, a Warren supporter. "We have that in Trump. I don't want it."

In Houston, Kirby Avila, 28, left a beer bar leaning toward Warren.

"She's so sharp, and I think it's time for a woman," Avila said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: communism; debate; election2020; socialism

As Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg are seen on a screen, people participate in a Democratic presidential debate watch party at an LGBTQ center Las Vegas on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020.

1 posted on 02/20/2020 7:43:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The alphabet soup mafia doesn’t like Bloomberg? Quelle surprise ...


2 posted on 02/20/2020 7:45:59 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

-—”He didn’t look like his commercials.”-—

They never do, genius! lol


3 posted on 02/20/2020 7:47:15 AM PST by StoneRainbow68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Fred Nerks

Mini Mike.....dragging around his sack full of gold coins.

Mike Quasimoto Bloomberg, the shorty hunchback of Notre Dame, one foot dragging after his first debate. If he quits now, he would be saving himself a lot of money, but who cares?

The pop corn factor is high and entertaining. Soon Quasimoto Mike will be a tragic star who no one will vote for.


4 posted on 02/20/2020 7:49:26 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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I see the LBQTV crowd missed the L/V debate’s “shining moment” of Democrats’ diversity........ .

Bloomberg being singled out for calling women “fat broads” and “horse-faced lesbians.”

Come on lesbos, get with it......Democrats prove once again how inclusive and sensitive they are.


5 posted on 02/20/2020 7:49:36 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Zhang Fei
In Houston, Kirby Avila, 28, left a beer bar leaning toward Warren.

"She's so sharp, and I think it's time for a woman," Avila said.

Gee, how do you argue with such impeccable logic? And such a representative sample from deviant bars around the country!

6 posted on 02/20/2020 7:52:54 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of all the places to gauge Democrat reaction, in a nation of 320 million people, the NBC reporter goes to a GAY BAR. If that doesn’t say it all.


7 posted on 02/20/2020 7:53:19 AM PST by montag813
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

8 posted on 02/20/2020 7:55:10 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"He didn't look like his commercials."

Voters who don't understand that TV commercials are not reality. No wonder the country's in deep doo. I bet that woman bought ShamWows by the dozens.


9 posted on 02/20/2020 7:58:16 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Vigilanteman

Voters who invest about as much thought and effort into casting their vote as they do in making a selection off the drive-thru menu. Another reason the country’s in deep doo.


10 posted on 02/20/2020 7:59:38 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Zhang Fei

Bloomberg was certainly the only one up there last night who doesn’t appear to be constantly angry (except for the young mayor). I can’t imagine what it would be like to see that angry face of Sanders on a daily basis. He looks like he could pop a blood vessel in his brain at any moment. What IS HIS PROBLEM?

Imagine Sanders and Warren as a team - We are mad and we are glad!


11 posted on 02/20/2020 8:01:33 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
... "He didn't look like his commercials."

Lol. Ever buy a frozen dinner?

But, seriously, yet another review of the debates as though Biden (of Obama-Biden fame) wasn't even there.

12 posted on 02/20/2020 8:11:09 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Voters who don't understand that TV commercials are not reality. No wonder the country's in deep doo. I bet that woman bought ShamWows by the dozens.

She also owns a glass boat held together with Flex Glue.

13 posted on 02/20/2020 8:14:02 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Vigilanteman

Warren and Klobo need to have their own cage fight to figure out who the womyn candidate will be.

Warren is allowed to use tomahawks as a weapon—Klobo gets to have the Mexican president (whatever his name is) choose her weapon. ;-)

(Random thought of the day—the NBA should be renamed the NDA... ;-) )


14 posted on 02/20/2020 8:59:32 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A gay bar, a beer bar...ya mean that being drunk was a requirement to watch this debacle.

I was sipping scotch, not drunk, not even high, but I was roaring so loud with laughter my wife came into my den to check on me, to make sure I wasn't stoned.

WOW, just WOW.

16 posted on 02/20/2020 9:32:24 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: veritasdavino
She handed Mike Bloomberg a savage beating.

Because Mini-Mike wasn't prepared. His bank roll couldn't save him from the Cherokee savage.

17 posted on 02/20/2020 9:58:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did Bloomberg use a step stool to stand on?


18 posted on 02/20/2020 12:12:44 PM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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