Why Does Elizabeth Warren Seem To Be Locked In A Death Spiral Of Mutual Destruction With Michael Bloomberg?

Warren may very well turn out to be the person who buries Bloomberg. But how does that help her?

If you watched the South Carolina Democratic debate last night, you might come away with the impression that job #1 for the Massachusetts senator right now is obliterating the former Mayor of New York.

That debate wasn’t the best so far, by far, but it contained a lot of substantive exchanges about policy among the other candidates. Though when it came around to Warren it seemed like “Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Bloomberg.” (Which overshadowed meaningful exchanges about why her healthcare proposals are better than Bernie Sanders’, etc.) So much so that unlike at the previous debate in Las Vegas, other candidates spent comparatively little time attacking Bloomberg. Because they probably knew they didn’t have to, because Warren was a lock to do that part of the job.

And he’s hardly the frontrunner right now, especially after she destroyed him in Las Vegas. Which was good strategy at the time. But now? In our view, at least, her venomous and unyielding focus on Bloomberg, made both of them look worse.