Bloomberg Tries to Get Past Stumbles Before Super Tuesday
- Debate performance panned, post-show commentary worse
- Candidate has taken steps to recover as more trouble hit
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Michael Bloomberg’s offer to lift three non-disclosure agreements and other steps taken in recent days are meant to move beyond his widely panned debate performance, a little more than a week before he’ll be on the ballot in more than a dozen states on Super Tuesday.
Since the debate, Bloomberg has seen his favorability ratings drop in one poll, faced renewed attention to the work environment for women at his company, and been targeted by the liberal activist group MoveOn. Late Friday, Twitter announced that it had suspended 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for possible violations of its rules on platform manipulation.