Scarborough: Sanders, Trump two big winners last night

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that President Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were the two biggest winners after Wednesday night’s fiery Democratic debate in Las Vegas.

During a panel discussion on “Morning Joe” Thursday, Scarborough pointed to the relative lack of attacks faced by Sanders and Trump as the primary contenders largely trained their fire on former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

“Got off scot free,” Scarborough said of Trump, agreeing with co-host Willie Geist. “Yeah, I thought the two biggest winners last night were Bernie, because he’s on the way to locking up this nomination if things keep going the way they are, and Donald Trump, who nobody laid a glove on, they were too busy tearing each other to shreds.”

Scarborough’s remarks come following a night of vicious jabs aimed largely at Bloomberg, a newcomer to the debate state, though former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also traded sharp blows near the end of the two-hour contest.

Sanders entered the night as an apparent front-runner, fresh off a win in New Hampshire and a virtual tie with Buttigieg in the Iowa caucuses, and looks poised to echo those strong performances in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday.

A Twitter analysis of the politicians who were the subject of the most tweets during the debate found that Trump was the most-talked-about U.S. politician Wednesday night, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), whose scathing attacks aimed at Bloomberg began at the very outset of the debate.