Hillary Clinton had hinted at moments of chauvinism by her onetime political rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a forthcoming book detailing the experience of female presidential candidates during the 2020 election.
It came after a heated moment in a debate when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Sanders had privately told her a woman couldn’t win the election, prompting a denial from Sanders. This apparently angered Warren, who approached Sanders after the fiery debate with her microphone on.
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“I think you called me a liar on national TV,” Warren said to Sanders.
“What?” he said, later shrugging her off and saying, “Let’s not do it right now. You wanna have that discussion, we’ll have that discussion.”
The moment had garnered national headlines and highlighted the tense relationship between the two senators that was often displayed on the campaign trail. Clinton had watched the hot-mic moment unfold, later saying she believed Warren that Sanders had made the comment.
“I believed her, because I know Sanders, and I know the kind of things that he says about women and to women,” Clinton told NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali in her forthcoming book Electable. “So, I thought that she was telling an accurate version of the conversation they’d had.”
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Sanders had previously been accused of encouraging a culture of young male voters, often calling themselves “Bernie Bros,” who would harass women if they did not support the Vermont senator’s candidacy. After forfeiting her candidacy in March 2020, Warren revealed that several of these young men had posted personal information about two female staffers who did not support Sanders’s campaign, according to MSNBC.
A spokesperson for Sanders did not respond to a request for comment by the Washington Examiner. Electable is set to be released on Aug. 23.
