NBC: Bernie Sanders can't be allowed to poison another Democratic primary with personal attacks

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19. Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win, sources say

Bernie takes negativity to whole new level. Press releases announcing that opponents are corrupt? Denying statements that he said a woman can't win that were witnessed by more than just the speakers involved? Bernie has been relentlessly negative not only toward other candidates, but toward the Democratic party in general as his comments to the New York Times made clear when portrayed a false equivalency between the Democratic and Republican party. It is just slash and burn.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-meeting/index.html

The stakes were high when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren met at Warren's apartment in Washington, DC, one evening in December 2018. The longtime friends knew that they could soon be running against each other for president.

The two agreed that if they ultimately faced each other as presidential candidates, they should remain civil and avoid attacking one another, so as not to hurt the progressive movement. They also discussed how to best take on President Donald Trump, and Warren laid out two main reasons she believed she would be a strong candidate: She could make a robust argument about the economy and earn broad support from female voters.

Sanders responded that he did not believe a woman could win.

The description of that meeting is based on the accounts of four people: two people Warren spoke with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting.