Tom Steyer, Billionaire, has been a Presidential candidate for six months...

[brooklynite]

...and hasn’t generated a tenth of the hostility from folks here that Bloomberg has in his two month campaign. Discuss.

[Demsrule86]

1. He is not a threat to other candidates...particularly Sen. Sanders.

[wildflower]

2. I'm not aware

of any misogyny or racism in Steyer's history, unless I missed something .

[squirecam]

4. Pete was attacked because

He got money from 40 billionaires, and they are evil. Steyer is a billionaire. No one attacked him.

Steyer hasn’t been a threat. That’s the difference. If Steyer finishes top 2 in Nevada, he’s going to get fire.

[honest.abe]

3. Clearly they fear Bloomberg..

and yet Bloomberg has not said a single negative word about any of the other Dem candidates. In particular it appears the Sanders people are targeting Bloomberg dredging up all sorts of things from his past and making absurd claims of what evil things he might do as a President. As if the current President is better somehow ??

[Amimnoch]

5. All while Republicans are calling for their supporters to Back Sanders in our Primaries.

https://www.wyff4.com/article/upstate-conservative-campaign-encourages-republicans-to-vote-for-bernie-sanders-in-sc-presidential-primary/30780304#

"This is an opportunity for us to support President Trump. We can't vote for him in primary this year so we can help him by participating in the Democrat Primary and voting for the candidate we feel is least electable and is also creating a lot of dissension between The Democratic Party and the Democrat voters,” said Shea.

https://thehill.com/homenews/481489-republicans-urging-gop-voters-to-vote-for-sanders-in-south-carolina-primary-report

Leupp said that he believes that the state's large Republican voter base could make the difference in the primary. To his point, in 2016 roughly 740,000 people voted in the state's GOP presidential primary, while only 370,000 voted in the Democratic version.
“I think we can easily affect the outcome,” Leupp told the paper. “This is going to catch on like wildfire.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/bernie-sanders-republican-senate-1307296

Republicans like their chances of keeping the Senate in 2020. But there’s one thing they think would all but seal the deal: Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Some GOP incumbents are practically cheering him on, confident there’s no way a self-described democratic socialist could win a general election against President Donald Trump and that he’d drag other Democrats on the ballot with him.

“It would be good for us to have a nominee like that,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is up for reelection next year and sounded downright giddy about the prospect of Sanders representing Democrats at the top of the ticket.

[William769]

6. Tom who?

[patricia92243]

7. But, but, but his billions are different. There is absolutely no

danger that Stayer would do any of the horrid things with his billions that Bloomberg would do with his billions.

SARCASM

[MineralMan]

8. Steyer never gained much momentum from his ads.

Bloomberg is doing that much better than Steyer. He is a genuine thread to a number of current candidates, so their followers are looking for negatives. Makes perfect sense to me.