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Elizabeth Warren Confirms Bernie Sanders Said a Woman Could Not Win | Breitbart

posted onJanuary 14, 2020
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Article snippet: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) confirmed Monday evening that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had told her in December 2018 that he did not believe that a woman could win the presidency. CNN reported Monday that the two had met at Warren’s apartment in Washington, DC, and had the following exchange: The CNN report came amidst open clashes between the two campaigns over claims that the Sanders campaign was using scripts in calls to voters that claimed Warren could not expand the Democratic Party’s demographic coalition. The clashes follow months of tension, with many Sanders supporters quietly seething at what many perceive as Warren’s attempt to copy Sanders’s “democratic socialist” policies. President Donald Trump savored the spat in a tweet on Monday morning: The Sanders campaign vehemently denied the CNN report, calling it a “lie” and calling on Warren to clarify: But Warren’s clarification Monday evening confirmed the CNN report. “Among the topics that came up was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate. I thought a woman could win; he disagreed,” Warren recalled. Warren added that she had “no interest in discussing this private meeting any further.” However, it is almost certain to come up at Tuesday night’s Democrat debate in Des Moines, Iowa, which will air live on CNN at 9:00 p.m. ET. Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College,... Link to the full article to read more

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