Nobody performed better at the Nevada debate than she did. Her performance was so good that the first hour of the televised event has become her campaign’s most successful fundraising round of all time, generating some $425,000 in donations in just half an hour alone.

Warren also took aim at her other opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, including Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. But it was Bloomberg who was her real target. Whenever he opened his mouth to defend himself, Warren hit back with another putdown, each delivered to raucous applause from the audience. Once, when Bloomberg referred to Warren somewhat condescendingly as “the senator next to me”, she turned to him and interjected: “Elizabeth”. Finally, when she challenged the former New York City Mayor to break the NDAs signed by former employees of his company who claim that they were victims of harassment, Warren had backed Bloomberg into a corner so hard he was starting to look triangular.

“None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told,” Bloomberg said, attempting a joke.

Warren went in for the kill: “This is not just a question of the mayor’s character. This is also a question about electability,” she said. “We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against. That’s not what we do as Democrats.”

US election 2020: nobody performed better in the Nevada Democratic debate than Elizabeth Warren