Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is taking aim at another billionaire a day after torching Michael Bloomberg on the debate stage in Las Vegas Wednesday night.
On Thursday, Warren’s campaign released a full-page ad in the Las Vegas Review-Journal detailing how much Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson would pay in taxes in the first year of the Massachusetts senator’s presidency.
Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent first noted the ad in a tweet.
The day after the debate, Elizabeth Warren bought a full page ad in Sheldon Adelson’s newspaper saying Sheldon Adelson will pay $2.3 billion the first year of her wealth tax. I think that’s called chutzpah. pic.twitter.com/dV7O3G8MJu
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) February 20, 2020
The ad, which comes days before the Nevada caucuses, says that Adelson would pay $2.3 billion under Warren’s wealth tax in the first year, which amounts to less than 6 percent of Adelson’s net worth of $39.6 billion.
The ad also claims that with the “small wealth tax,” more money would go toward Nevada families when it comes to issues such as student debt and child care.
TPM reached out to Warren’s campaign for comment and will update this post if we hear back.
This isn’t the first time Warren has gone after Adelson. Prior to announcing her presidential candidacy, Warren called out the CEO of Las Vegas Sands for donating $20 million to President Trump’s 2016 election campaign in an Oct. 2018 tweet.
It’s nice to see a Dem with ovaries.
Meanwile, Melania trolls America.
Nevertheless, she persisted
Win or lose, Warren will not be erased.
ETA: Our politics are sick with money and the consequent policies have blighted the nation: Warren is not a nurse, she is a triage physician.
LIz is still in the Fight, and I am happy about that. I could see it from the beginning of the Debate.
Warren has the ability to straddle the Left and the Center Left and it was evident with the bookend slams of Bloomberg, last night, with Liz and Biden both taking turns.
She needs a David Ploeffe-level campaign guru to get her aligned with POC, suburban voters and sectors of the Midwest Belt that HRC lost in 2016.
“Some people, however - like my idiot husband - are simply unable to learn … or care.”