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‘This Was a Grift’: Bloomberg Staffers Explain Campaign’s Demise | The Nation:

“Ever since the first debate all of us faced a ton of hostility [when knocking on] doors…and could hardly get any volunteers,” one field organizer told me. “I once had a woman chase me back to my car demanding that I say you can’t buy the presidency.”

Several members of the campaign described Bloomberg’s debate as the beginning of the end. As another field organizer put it, “The people who liked Mike initially didn’t care about the sexual [harassment] allegations or stop and frisk, but they got turned off because they thought he made himself look weak and that he had let Warren walk all over him.”

The person added, “I had to organize [a] debate watch party.… The whole bar was full of Bloombros. You could just feel everyone getting silent and awkward whenever Warren tore into Bloomberg.”

No, Bloomberg didn’t “let Warren walk all over him.” She mopped the floor with him and his sorry excuse for a campaign and there is nothing he could have done about it, because she is smarter, better, and stronger than him.

Just imagine what Warren would have done to Trump.

I’ll vote for whoever the Democrats nominee ends up being, but I wish it could have been Warren. Of all of them, she would be the best president, and she’s the only one of the bunch that I found to be inspiring.

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