Elizabeth Warren now affirms that yes, she is standing by her account, in a private conversation in 2018, Bernie Sanders once told her he didn’t believe a woman could win the presidency.
And she admits it in a sneaky, underhanded way that distracts from the fact that her campaign team obviously leaked the conversation in the first place, and certainly with her knowledge.
Here’s the important part:
It’s all blah, blah, blah from there, but let’s look at the facts.
This was, as she said, a “private meeting.” “Sources” put its contents out there for the media just as Warren’s campaign was going down in flames and Sanders’s campaign was climbing toward victory in Iowa.
Surely, Sanders didn’t put this information out there. And, if you believe that Warren’s friends have waited this long to start telling tales, without any nods, winks, or hints from people at the top of her campaign, then you’re just deluding yourself.
I believe that in tomorrow night’s debate, Sanders will elaborate on this. He will state that he said what he did because he thought there was too still too much sexism in America.
The underlying lesson here is not to trust Warren. And as to the question of whether a woman can win: some woman, maybe, but not her.
