Progressive supporters backing Warren were uncomfortable with her initial response, upset with its centrist thrust and dearth of the “big, bold, structural” stances that won them to her side, multiple sources told ABC News. By the next day, her rhetoric showed a clear U-turn: calling the strike an “assassination,” as Sanders had already done.
Warren made rare Sunday show appearances over the weekend -- her first as a presidential candidate, in fact -- and continued to attack and criticize President Trump without mentioning Soleimani.
"The Treasury Department and the State Department have both designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization -- I don't understand the flip flop. I don't understand why it was so hard to call him a terrorist," McCain said.
McCain noted how Warren had called Soleimani a "murderer" and later described his death as an assassination.
Democrats like Warren have worried that President Trump's strike on Soleimani could lead the nation into armed conflict with Iran.
At one point, McCain asked Warren whether she thought Soleimani was a terrorist. After twice describing Soleimani as "part of a group" designated as terrorists, Warren said "of course" Soleimani was himself a terrorist.