Warren torches men on debate stage for their election records
January 14, 2020Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren clashed in a highly anticipated exchange at Tuesday night's Democratic primary debate — with Sanders vehemently denying that he said a woman could not capture the presidency in 2020 as Warren sought to make a forceful case for her electability.
"I didn't say it. And I don't want to waste a whole lot of time on this, because this is what Donald Trump and maybe some of the media want," Sanders said. "Anybody knows me knows that it's incomprehensible that I would think that a woman cannot be president of the United States."
Sanders went on to claim that he "deferred" before announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy, first waiting for Warren to make her decision on a potential White House bid four years ago.
"There was a movement to draft Senator Warren to run for president," Sanders said. "And you know what, I stayed back. Senator Warren decided not to run, and then I did — I did run afterwards."
Responding to Sanders, Warren noted that "Bernie is my friend," but stuck by her previous assertion that Sanders did indeed make the gloomy assessment regarding a female presidential candidacy.
"Look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it's time for us to attack it head-on," Warren said, imploring the audience to "look at the men" on the debate stage.
"Collectively, they have lost ten elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women. [Sen. Amy Klobuchar] and me," Warren said. "And the only person on this stage who has beaten an incumbent Republican anytime in the past 30 years is me."
The collision between the two senators was widely expected in the aftermath of a CNN report stating that Sanders made his alleged assessment during a private meeting with Warren in 2018, ahead of their presidential campaign announcements.
Source: https://www.politico.com/
