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Bernie Sanders campaign manager responds to report that in 2018 Sanders told Warren that a woman couldn’t win in 2020

Sanders' campaign released an angry statement from the Vermont senator in response to the CNN report. "It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president,  I would tell her that a woman couldn't win," Sanders said. "It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened." I had no idea that Bernie Sanders was a misogynist! How dare he tell Harvard Law School’s first woman of color, in so many words, that she’s got no chance of winning! It continues… Sanders denied the characterization of the meeting in a statement to CNN. “It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn’t win,” Sanders said. “It’s sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that pri...

Meghan McCain confronted Elizabeth Warren: Why is it 'so hard to call him a terrorist?'

Elizabeth Warren  was pushed Meghan McCain on her switch in rhetoric.  Over the weekend , Warren drew heat for focusing on Soleimani, vilifying him as a “murderer” rather than railing against escalation in the Middle East of any kind, as Vermont Sen.  Bernie Sanders  has done. 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 underst...