Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg slammed Mike Bloomberg and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as two of the “most polarizing figures on this stage” at Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate.

“Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat,” Buttigieg said, referring to himself, from the stage in Las Vegas, while deriding Sanders as a “socialist” and criticizing Bloomberg’s wealth.

“Most Americans don’t see where they fit if they’ve got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power,” Buttigieg said.

“Let’s put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in an industrial Midwestern city. Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat,” he said.

Sanders took offense to labeled “polarizing.”

“If speaking to the needs and the pain of a long-neglected working class is polarizing, I think you got the wrong word,” Sanders said.