CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — “Mr. Bloomberg, like anybody else, has a right to run for president. He does not have a right to buy the presidency.”

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, fresh off his win in the New Hampshire primary last week, on Monday tweeted this statement about his competitor, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

About an hour later, Sanders tweeted an undated photo that appears to show Bloomberg playing golf alongside his fellow New York City billionaire – none other than President Donald Trump.

“Together, we are going to end the greed of the billionaire class,” Sanders later added via Twitter.

This is but one example of how Bloomberg, who skipped New Hampshire and Iowa entirely, is affecting the national race. With a net worth estimated in the range of $60 billion, Bloomberg has been running ads and paying campaign staff to work in states throughout the nation. He continues doing this as fellow Democratic contenders slug it out in the race for votes in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, as well as the Feb. 29 South Carolina primary.

Bloomberg hit back Monday with a video mashup posted to Twitter of aggressive and threatening comments made by people who appear to be Sanders supporters, juxtaposed with Sanders calling for “civil discourse.”

“We need to unite to defeat Trump in November,” the former New York mayor tweeted. “This type of ‘energy’ is not going to get us there.”

Another wildcard in the matter is that current New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has now endorsed Sanders.

“I’m sorry to report to you the chief proponent of stop and frisk is now running for president,” de Blasio said in reference to Bloomberg.

Meanwhile, former national front-runner Joe Biden has been hammering home the need for any Democratic candidate to appeal to voters of color. On Sunday, he told black lawmakers and other political figures at the Nevada Black Legislative Caucus’s Black History Month observance that “the black community has in its power to determine who the next president of the United States is going to be.”

As for New Hampshire primary runner-up Pete Buttigieg, he joked on Monday that he would let Trump stay in the White House after the November election “if he’s willing to do the chores.”

After making the same joke at each stop, Buttigieg said the question makes it important to win the general election by as big a margin as possible.

He told a group of veterans in Reno that he wanted to win “big enough that this election is beyond cheating distance.” Buttigieg repeated that at a Carson City town hall and tied it to his pitch that he can assemble the broadest coalition in November.

Amy Klobuchar, who finished third in New Hampshire, is joining her competitors in launching full Spanish-language TV ads ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Latinos make up 29% of Nevada’s population and the Democratic candidates are courting them in the early state before final caucus voting Saturday.

Klobuchar comes from a mostly white state and is among the candidates working to prove she can reach out to diverse groups of voters in Nevada and beyond. She stumbled in an interview last week when she couldn’t name Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Her ad features a Spanish-speaking narrator who says Klobuchar is a candidate who can actually defeat Trump and fight for better health care and prices for prescription drugs.

Finally, after a disappointing fourth-place finish in her neighboring state last week, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is promoting Democratic unity in taking on Trump, a challenge she framed as an existential crisis for America.

Warren, having partly recovered her voice after catching a cold, said at a Monday afternoon town hall in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson that America is at its best when it takes on a problem.

She said the 2020 election “is the moment in history that we have been called to,” likening it to the challenges America overcame from its founding revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II.

Warren also spoke about how she’s adopted policy plans and hired staff from Democrats who have dropped out of the race, including New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former Obama administration housing chief Julián Castro, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Warren said culling those ideas builds a Democratic Party and coalition “that works for all of us.”

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