NYT: Sanders surges to lead in Iowa (+8 over Biden, 7 over Buttigieg)

[DanTex]

41. Yes, it was shitty of Warren to accuse Sanders of saying something he would obviously never say.

It's contrary to everything Bernie has said his entire life, particularly since he tried to recruit her to run in 2016. Obviously, nobody outside of a small bubble believed her which explains her subsequent drop in the polls. It seems like it was a Kamikaze play for Biden's VP slot -- you know, split up the progressives, tank her own campaign but hurt Bernie enough to pave the road for Biden.

I mean, even if in an alternate reality in which he did say that, it would still be a shitty thing for her to do, to leak a private conversation two years after the fact as a political hit job on someone who shares her platform and political vision. From now on, anyone who thinks they are having a private conversation with her is going to know that at any moment she might leak it to the press misleadingly for her political advantage.

It's a shame, I really like Warren, but like a lot of people, that backstab left me stunned.