I’ve reported that Sanders people are going after Joe Biden and his black voter connections …
Now we have reports of his staff going after fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren 3 weeks before the Iowa caucus and a month b for the New Hampshire primary…
Things ARE getting rough….
And there is a debate coming up shortly….
The nonaggression pact between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is seriously fraying.
Sanders’ campaign has begun stealthily attacking Warren as a candidate of the upper crust who could not expand the Democratic base in a general election, according to talking points his campaign is using to sway voters and obtained by POLITICO.
The script instructs Sanders volunteers to tell voters leaning toward the Massachusetts senator 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.”
“I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional]” the script begins. “In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.” It then pivots to the criticisms of Warren.
The Sanders campaign did not challenge the authenticity of the script, but it declined to comment. The Warren campaign also declined to comment.
It is unclear whether the script is being used for phone calls or door knocking or both, or in which locations.
The document also instructs to tell voters who are favorable toward Pete Buttigieg that he lacks support among African Americans and young people and to tell voters sympathetic to former Vice President Joe Biden that “he doesn’t really have any volunteers” and that “no one is really excited about him.” All of the attacks relate to the electability of Sanders’ top rivals.
The campaign script signals a break from the predominantly positive tone Warren and Sanders have adopted throughout the campaign. While Sanders has been critical of other Democratic rivals, particularly Biden, he and Warren, longtime friends, have largely abstained from attacking one another despite regular prodding from reporters.
But with voting now just weeks away, the competition between the two is intensifying. The marquee Iowa Poll released Friday had Sanders in first at 20 percent, with Warren trailing narrowly behind in second place at 17 percent.
“We were told never to go negative or contrast with other candidates,” a person close to Sanders’ campaign told POLITICO. “Bernie would let us know when it was O.K.. So if that’s happening, he’s aware.”
At a campaign appearance Sunday, Warren responded that she was “disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me.”…
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Unsurprising.
Bernie needs to get it down to ahead to head with the “moderate “ alternative asap.
Sanders denied responsibility for what his campaign was doing. He said that no one from his campaign is going to trash Warren and that she remains a good friend of his.
Give ur source on the Sanders is knocking his staff from going after Warren and Biden Z….
I’m waiting Z on the source of Sanders NOT backing attacks by his staff against Warren and Biden….
Does Warren think she is above the normal activities of a campaign and should be exempt from criticism?
James,
I didn’t say anything about Sanders not attacking Biden. I said he hasn’t attacked Warren. Biden deserved the attacks. Warren did not.
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-denies-sending-campaign-volunteers-trash-elizabeth-warren-1481762
He, he, he….
Biden ‘deserved’ throw downs from Sanders…Warren does NOT?????
CNN is now reporting that Sanders told Warren to her FACE that a woman couldn’t win in 2018 private meeting….
Sanders is now saying g it’s ‘ludicrous ‘ that he would say that
What is Warren saying?
Is that an actual denial by Sanders?
It appears that Sanders IS fighting HARD to get a way to stop Biden and Warren from winning Iowa….
I understand….
With Biden’s polling numbers for the post Iowa and NH states?
He NEEDS a win in Iowa…
Biden wins Iowa?
Sanders can win NH , but it doesn’t matter …
Breaking...
It appears the Sanders knock on Warren was more widespread then previously known….
Politico…
The controversial talking points attacking Elizabeth Warren that Bernie Sanders’ campaign deployed were given to teams in at least two early voting states on Friday, three Sanders campaign officials confirmed.