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Elizabeth Warren Goes After Bernie Sanders, Claims He Said A Woman Couldn't Win The Presidency

Recent reports have been released, supposedly from people within the Warren campaign, claiming that during a 2018 private meeting over dinner between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Sanders told Warren that a woman could not win the presidency in 2020.

According to the releases, the two discussed their 2020 plans and both agreed that they both planned to enter the presidential race and Warren mentioned if she thought a female candidate could win the presidency, to which Bernie supposedly told Warren that a women wouldn't be able to win in 2020.

Hours after initial news reporting on the subject Warren released a statement in which she stated that Sanders told her that a woman would not be able to win the presidency, leading to claims of sexism and news reports claiming that Sanders has always had a "gender problem".

Sanders camp, specifically campaign manager Faiz Shakir, spoke to reporters, saying that this was a lie, Sanders did after all encourage Elizabeth Warren to run against Hillary Clinton in 2016 as he wished that there would be a strong progressive alternative in the race. Sanders also responded by saying that a woman could win the presidency because Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump by three millions votes.

Several questions arose after the release of these claims. Why would Sanders claim a woman could not win on one hand, but urge Warren to run in 2016 on the other hand? Why is there video evidence of Sanders saying that a woman could win several times other the past thirty years? Why would Sanders partake in campaign events for Hillary Clinton in 2016 if a woman couldn't win the presidency? Why was this released now and not at any other time in the race? Why was this released when Warren is slipping in the polls and Sanders has a very good chance to be the nominee?

Asked to further comment, Warren wouldn't go into detail and said she wanted to leave it behind and that Bernie was a good friend of hers, but she did claim that Sanders did indeed say that a woman wouldn't be able to win.

This claim was just brought up in the January 15th Democratic Debate, in which the CNN debate moderators framed the question in a despicable way: "Senator Sanders, why did you tell Elizabeth Warren that a woman could not win the presidency?" To which Sanders responded that he never said such a thing, further stating that he told Warren to run in 2016 and that Hillary was the popular vote winner at the last election.

The CNN debate moderators continued to insinuate that Sanders did indeed tell Warren that a woman could not win, not once did they say 'allegedly Sanders told Warren a woman couldn't win' just outright implying it even though Sanders twice said that he didn't say such a thing and has been saying that a woman could win for over the last thirty years.

Elizabeth Warren leaned hard into the claim, still insinuating that Sanders did say that a woman could not win but insisted that she didn't want to get drawn into arguments about it. The back and forth with the moderator went as such:

  • Moderator: "Bernie, did you say a woman couldn't win?"
  • Bernie: "No I didn't say that, I asked Warren to run in 2016 and Hillary won by three million votes."
  • Moderator: "Elizabeth Warren, what did you think when Bernie told you that he didn't think a woman could win?"
Sanders just laughed at the moderators assertion, along with crowd laughter, it seems that CNN, the network who broke the leaks and instantly asserted that they were true, Sanders has questions to answer and that he's always supposedly had a woman problem, and no matter what Sanders says, CNN and anti-Sanders supporters already made their mind up as soon as the leaks came out.

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