Though Warren stated that she has 'no interest in discussing this private meeting any further,' the conflict will likely be a major theme at Tuesday's debate
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren at the July 2019 Democratic debate. Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images After a relatively cordial primary season in 2019, the Democratic race may be beginning to sour, as the week of the final debate prior to the Iowa caucuses has brought the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to a head.
Sanders denied the report, attributing the detail to “staff who weren’t in the room [who] are lying about what happened.” But on Monday night, Elizabeth Warren disputed Sanders’s denial in a statement: “Among the topics that came up was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate. I thought a woman could win; he disagreed. I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further because Bernie and I have far more in common than our differences on punditry.
The language is clearly important here: Not only did Warren contradict Sanders’s denial, her claim that he “disagreed” with the winning prospect of a female candidate suggests that Sanders outright stated a woman could not win in 2020, rather than something grayer, like a hypothetical statement that a female candidate’s gender would be an electoral albatross.
Despite Warren’s call to end the conversation controversy, it’s bound to continue — considering the lack of conflict within the primary thus far, and that each could benefit from the other’s dip in the polls. Minutes after Warren’s statement went public, Sanders surrogates were already questioning the Massachusetts senator’s credibility on the matter.
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