
Mike Bloomberg responded to accusations by Bernie Sanders that his past policies fail to generate the “energy and excitement to defeat Donald Trump” by releasing an ad featuring a montage of online threats made by Sanders supporters against rival candidates.
Mediaite reports: “Including screenshots of tweets, the Bloomberg ad included comments like ‘vote Bernie or bad things will happen,’ texts threatening someone where they live and ‘your kids go to school,’ and a cartoon suggesting Death was killing the supporters of Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden. The ad concludes with a Sanders clip saying it is important for people who hold different views to be able to engage in a civil discourse, ending with the Bloomberg campaign asking, ‘really?'”
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