Warren ‘Disappointed’ To Hear Sanders ‘Sending His Volunteers Out To Trash Me’

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 30, 2019 Democratic presidential hopefuls US Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders (L) and US Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren hug after participating in the first ro... (FILES) In this file photo taken on July 30, 2019 Democratic presidential hopefuls US Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders (L) and US Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren hug after participating in the first round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season in Detroit, Michigan. - The huge field of Democratic presidential aspirants has finally begun to shrink: recently, four candidates for the White House have thrown in the sponge. But 21 others are still in the running. And in this crowded arena, former vice president Joe Biden is clinging to his lead despite an often rocky summer and the steady rise of progressive senator Elizabeth Warren. Once the list of participants qualifying for the Democrats' third round of debates is confirmed next week, other presidential hopefuls are expected to drop out in quick succession. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Two days before the last Democratic presidential debate prior to the Iowa caucuses next month, drama appears to have unexpectedly emerged between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT).

According to a Politico report Sunday morning, a Sanders campaign script instructs volunteers to tell voters who are leaning toward voting for 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.”

Politico reported that before listing criticisms of Warren, the script distributed to Sanders campaign volunteers begins: “I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional] In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.”

While speaking to reporters in Iowa Sunday, Warren responded to Politico’s report by saying that she was “disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me.”

“Bernie knows me, and has known me for a long time, he knows who I am, where I come from, what I have worked on and fought for and the coalition and grassroots movement we’re trying to build,” Warren said.

Warren added that “we can’t have a repeat” of the “impact of the factionalism in 2016,” which appeared to take aim at the Sanders supporters who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton against then-candidate Donald Trump following Sanders’ Democratic primary loss.

“Democrats need to unite our party, and that means pulling in all parts of the Democratic coalition,” Warren said, before saying that “we need someone who can bring our party together” and that she hopes “Bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction.”

When asked whether she meant that Sanders is not a candidate that “everyone can get behind,” Warren dodged and responded: “I believe we need someone every Democrat can get behind and out there fighting for every Democrat.”

Watch Warren’s remarks below:

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  1. Why be surprised that a fake Democrat trashes Democrats? It’s been Bernie’s shtick for decades now. “The Democrats can’t be trusted! Trust me because I’m an official Democrat for at least 10 months out of every 48!”

  2. Avatar for tena tena says:

    But Bernie and his people aren’t misogynistic.

    Really - they told us so; last time we went through this with a woman candidate.

    The plain truth is that we have a base: African American voters. When they turn out, we win. They are lined up behind Joe Biden and that doesn’t look to be changing or changeable.

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    O that stupid stupid stupid old woman. (and she’s only 4 years older than me but she earned that from me)

  4. Proven snake attacks friend of snake, friend can’t believe it.

    At least Warren got some good licks in, I give her credit for that but cozying up to Sanders was a mistake and she is just now figuring that out?

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