Analysis: We just saw some of the Democratic candidates' best debate performances so far. (Well, except for Mike Bloomberg.)
Michael Bloomberg may have bought his way on to the debate stage in Las Vegas Wednesday night but the rest of us are in his debt.
Nothing in Bloomberg’s wobbly debut suggested that an orthodox, mix-it-up-with-average-voters campaign in early, small states ever could have worked. His big-spending, glide-over-the-early-BS approach is the only one that likely could work for him. The primary attraction for the debate, hosted by NBC News, was a chance for people to see Bloomberg naked—no longer on TV commercials, dressed in the heroic garb of tycoon-turned-Cincinnatus ready to lay down his financial data terminal and pick up his sword against President Donald Trump.
If the old rules of politics still applied, we could be confident in saying Bloomberg stunk the joint up. But we have abundant evidence that the old rules often don’t apply. On CNN afterward, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe noted that many millions more people have seen Bloomberg’s ads—paid for with a campaign budget that so far has spent close to $400 million—than will watch the debate, or perhaps even follow coverage of it.
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