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Sanders clashes with Warren – and the moderators – on sexism charge at heated Iowa debate
The final Democratic presidential debate before the pivotal Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses turned tense Tuesday night, as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren sparred over the disputed reports that Sanders had privately told Warren in December 2018 that a woman could not realistically become president.
The final Democratic presidential debate before the pivotal Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses turned tense Tuesday night, as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren sparred over the disputed reports that Sanders had privately told Warren in December 2018 that a woman could not realistically become president.
“Well, as a matter of fact, I didn’t say it," Sanders insisted, after one of the CNN debate's moderators asserted the conversation had occurred. Later, when asked whether he was unequivocally denying that the conversation took place, he said, "That is correct." A debate moderator then immediately and matter-of-factly asked Warren, "What did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?"
That prompted laughter in the debate hall at Drake University in Des Moines, and a bewildered chuckle from Sanders. Some commentators have suggested the CNN report of Warren and Sanders' alleged 2018 conversation, which cited sources who were not present for Sanders' alleged remarks, was a leak from the Warren campaign intended to blunt Sanders' surge in recent polls.
The Sanders-Warren clash smashed the more than yearlong non-aggression pact between the two candidates and was just one of several flashpoints between the two that emerged during the debate. As the event concluded, Warren appeared to ignore Sanders' invitation for a handshake.
Sanders had a different focus early in the debate, as he challenged former Vice President Joe Biden's initial support for the Iraq war, which he called "the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country." Click here for more on our top story.
Other key Iowa debate developments:
- Winners and losers from the Iowa Democratic debate
- Bret Baier breaks down debate moments
- Warren-Sanders clash ‘very dispiriting,’ Dems' debate like 'cold oatmeal,' CNN’s Van Jones says
- 2020 Dems excluded from debate turn to commercial breaks
- Bret Baier breaks down debate moments
- Warren-Sanders clash ‘very dispiriting,’ Dems' debate like 'cold oatmeal,' CNN’s Van Jones says
- 2020 Dems excluded from debate turn to commercial breaks
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