On eve of Iowa debate, Warren says Sanders ‘disagreed’ a woman could win the White House

However the report cites 4 nameless sources who say Sanders advised Warren, after she made her case for her candidacy for the Democratic nomination, that he didn’t imagine a lady might win the election.

Sanders denied the account.

“It’s ludicrous to imagine that on the similar assembly the place Elizabeth Warren advised me she was going to run for president, I might inform her {that a} girl could not win,” Sanders advised CNN. “It is unhappy that, three weeks earlier than the Iowa caucus and a yr after that personal dialog, workers who weren’t within the room are mendacity about what occurred.”

Sanders mentioned he referred to as President Donald Trump “a sexist, a racist and a liar” throughout that dialog. 

“Do I imagine a lady can win in 2020? In fact! In any case, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by three million votes in 2016.”

Kristin Orthman, Warren’s communications director, initially declined to remark to CNN. However Monday night, she posted an announcement from the candidate to Twitter. In it, Warren contradicts Sanders’s declare.

“Among the many subjects that got here up was what would occur if the Democrats nominated a feminine candidate,” she mentioned. “I assumed a lady might win; he disagreed.”

In her assertion, Warren mentioned the two-hour assembly was centered on how they might finest work collectively on their “shared targets: beating Donald Trump, taking again our authorities from the rich and well-connected, and constructing an economic system that works for everybody.”

Warren says she has “no curiosity” in discussing the assembly additional as a result of the 2 hopefuls “have much more in widespread than our variations on punditry.

“I am on this race to speak about what’s damaged on this nation and find out how to repair it — and that is what I will proceed to do. I do know Bernie is within the race for a similar motive.”

She mentioned the 2 “have been pals and allies for a very long time,” and mentioned she has “little doubt” the 2 will proceed to work collectively to defeat Trump.

Debate set for Tuesday

The crack within the basis of their cordial relationship might develop wider in Tuesday night’s debate, which is able to see the 2 face off towards former vice-president Joe Biden, former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and billionaire investor and environmentalist Tom Steyer.

As the gang of Democratic nominee hopefuls thins and the marketing campaign barrels towards the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3, the remaining candidates will probably be in search of any edge they will acquire within the first main major contest. The candidates’ showings that day could make or break their candidacies, together with having a giant impression on fundraising.

Warren and Sanders, lengthy the 2 most progressive candidates, will begin differentiating themselves as they head into major season, and polls present Sanders with a slight edge in Iowa. These efforts might produce fireworks at Tuesday’s debate.

Final week, a CNN/Des Moines Register ballot put Sanders on the high of the sphere with 20 per cent help. Warren and Buttigieg have been in a statistical tie with Sanders, whereas Biden was behind at 15 per cent help. On Monday, a brand new ballot from Monmouth College put Biden forward at 24 per cent help, with Sanders at 18 per cent, Buttigieg at 17 per cent and Warren at 15 per cent. The ballot’s five-point margin of error put the 4 in a statistical tie.

The disagreement between Warren and Sanders follows an uptick in sexist assaults on Warren, together with on social media after, and never for the primary time, video of her dancing at a marketing campaign rally final week went viral. 

Cory Booker, who has dropped out of the Democratic race, got here to her defence on Twitter, and questioned why Warren comes below hearth for awkward dance strikes whereas his “dad jokes” get a cross.