Nevada Democratic Debate Takeaways
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We ran the numbers: There are 5385 news articles covering this topic. 44% (2370) are left leaning, 30% (1620) center, 26% (1395) right leaning.
On Wednesday, the remaining Democratic candidates gathered in Las Vegas for the Democratic presidential debate. While left-leaning articles focus on the debate on class warfare, right-leaning articles highlight attacks on former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg during the debate.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that the Democratic debate became one about class warfare, as Bloomberg and Senator Bernie Sanders faced off and underscored the extent to which class has emerged as a dividing line inside the factionalized Democratic Party. While senators Elizabeth Warren and Sanders used Bloomberg’s billionaire status against him, Bloomberg defended himself by leaning on his financial success as a differentiator from other candidates.
NPR published a centrist article reporting the key takeaways from the Nevada Democratic debate. The article states that while Bloomberg had an uneven performance, while Warren was the most aggressive she has been during the campaign. Furthermore, centrist candidates such as Klobuchar and Buttigieg were not uniting, Sanders did not do much to expand his base, and the debate seemed to help Trump’s campaign.
New York Post published a right-leaning article highlighting that the millions of dollars Michael Bloomberg’s campaign spent imploded during Wednesday’s Democratic debate. The article highlights that each candidate attacked Bloomberg on stage either for his record on stop-and-frisk, or for his “checkered past on sexual harassment.”