Bernie Sanders Says Warren Catching Up to Him Because People 'Would Like To See A Woman Elected' [View all]

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bernie-sanders-says-elizabeth-warren-catching-up-to-him-because-people-would-like-to-see-a-woman-elected/

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s Cuomo PrimeTime, anchor Chris Cuomo described recent polling showing Warren catching — and even surpassing, in some cases — Sanders in the polls, and asked him “What do you think the reason is that Elizabeth Warren is catching up to you in polls? Do you believe that people see her as the more electable version of Bernie Sanders?”

“Well, I think we are running against a lot of problems,” Sanders said, and then described two of those “problems.”

“I think that there are certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected, and I understand that,” Sanders said. “There are people who would like to see somebody who was younger, and I understand that also. There are a lot of factors out there.”

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“Elizabeth is a friend of mine, I think she’s running a good campaign,” Sanders continued, “but at the end of the day, Chris, whether it’s Biden or Warren, Elizabeth Warren, or anybody else, what I believe is that in fact I am the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump, and I think some of the polling shows that.”

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Video at the link.


Interesting that Sanders uses those excuses.

And of course he's completely wrong about the polling showing he's the strongest candidate to defeat Trump.

The polling shows Biden is the strongest.

Nate Silver tweeted today about Sanders making a mistake emphasizing polling, because that isn't hurting his intended target rival, Warren, as much as it is helping Biden by emphasizing electability.

Link to tweet

Continue to think the Sanders campaign often citing its polling v. Trump is not smart. Raising the salience of "electability" probably helps Biden more (who polls better against Trump than Bernie anyway). Meanwhile, Warren gets to be the policy-focused, not-poll-driven candidate.