Sen. Elizabeth Warren was the most tweeted-about 2020 Democratic candidate after her Wednesday night primary debate performance, according to Twitter.
The Massachusetts progressive, who had floundered in the polls in recent weeks, was the most mentioned candidate by name on the social media platform, the site said Wednesday night.
Behind her was former Big Apple Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was the main target of his Democratic rivals’ ire during his debate debut in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Warren skewered the billionaire businessman, taking him to task over past “racist” policies such as “stop-and-frisk” and allegations that he fostered a sexist work environment at his company, Bloomberg LP.
“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against — a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians, and no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg,” she said.
“Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, harassing women and racist policies,” she added in an effort to align Bloomberg with the current commander-in-chief.
According to the social media site, Bloomberg and Warren were involved in the three top tweeted-about moments as well.
REUTERSThe most tweeted-about moment was when the former mayor was hitting Sen. Bernie Sanders for promoting Democratic socialism while not fully discussing his own wealth.
“The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses,” Bloomberg said of the Vermont senator.
The second-most tweeted-about moment came when Warren defended Sen. Amy Klobuchar when the Minnesotan was pressed on forgetting the name of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Warren, who had just knocked Klobuchar’s health care proposal by calling it a Post-it note, said that the criticism of the Minnesota senator for forgetting a name was wrong.
“Can I defend Sen. Klobuchar for a minute? This is not right. I understand that she forgot the name. It happens. It happens to everybody on this stage.”
