Sanders Camp Co-Chair Denies He Sent Out Volunteers To ‘Trash’ Warren

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - JULY 30: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) embrace after the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 30, 2019 in Detr... DETROIT, MICHIGAN - JULY 30: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) embrace after the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 30, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. 20 Democratic presidential candidates were split into two groups of 10 to take part in the debate sponsored by CNN held over two nights at Detroit’s Fox Theatre. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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A co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) presidential campaign denies that the Vermont senator intended to “trash” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with a campaign script shared with volunteers.

In an interview with Hill.TV Monday morning, Sanders’ presidential campaign co-chair Nina Turner said the Democratic candidate “would never support the trashing of any candidate” and “never directed anybody to do such a thing.”

Turner’s comment was in response to Warren’s reaction to Politico’s report Sunday regarding a Sanders campaign script instructing volunteers to tell voters leaning toward Warren that the “people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what” and that “she’s bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party.”

Hours after the report, Warren reacted to the Sanders campaign script by telling reporters in Iowa that she was “disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me.”

Turner told Hill.TV that she was “really sad” to see Warren’s reaction because as the Massachusetts Democrat mentioned, “Sanders knows her — she knows him” and “she knows that he would never do anything like that so when she says he sent out his volunteers, nothing could be further from the truth.”

However, Turner did not deny that that language might have been shared with volunteers and suggested there was nothing wrong with a campaign script that lists criticisms of Warren. She argued “the same could be said” about Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

“But the comparison of records and lying out the facts about the demographics that each candidate — the same could be said about former mayor Pete Buttigieg that his supporters tend to trend more affluent, more educated. It’s just what it is,” Turner said.

Turner’s comments on Hill.TV came just hours after President Trump appeared to egg on the supposed “feud brewing” between Sanders and Warren in a Monday morning tweet.

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  1. Ah so they deny the “trash” comment that Warren made but, don’t actually deny the script?

    “she knows that he would never do anything like that so when she says he sent out his volunteers, nothing could be further from the truth.”

    But they don’t deny the script?! They even say it’s OK but, Warren is a bigger meanie for even thinking Sanders would do it?

  2. Sanders will not be the Nominee. I am more concerned with the Aftermath.

  3. Avatar for jcs jcs says:

    Sanders long disturbing history of trashing his opponents with lies follows him and his spokesperson also has a divisive history.

  4. Bernie camp says it never happened. Warren Camp won’t comment. Interesting development.

  5. Avatar for AM_PM AM_PM says:

    “Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to throw as much shade as possible on Bernie’s opponents. Should you be captured on video or recorded, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.”

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