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94. No campaign effort to smear Warren?
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 01:04 AM
Feb 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/joe-biden-elizabeth-warren-elitist/index.html

(CNN)Joe Biden said Elizabeth Warren has an "elitist attitude" in a radio interview. He wrote on Medium that the Massachusetts senator is "condescending." He told donors her 2020 Democratic campaign is based on a "my-way-or-the-highway attitude."

And he told reporters on Wednesday that Warren was the one who started it.

The former vice president has sharply escalated his attacks on Warren in recent days, shifting from dismissing Warren's policy ideas as unrealistic to a more personal attack on the former Harvard professor. Three months from the Iowa caucuses, Biden's new approach reflects a new phase in the 2020 primary, with Democratic candidates sharpening their criticism of their foes and drawing more distinctions.

The campaign is reframing its critiques of Warren, a source close to Biden's campaign told CNN. It is no longer that "she is a liar," the source said.
"It's 'Warren is a smarty britches who thinks if you don't agree with her, you're an idiot,'" the source said in describing Biden's new approach.
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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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I'm thinking they may go after Mayor Pete tiredtoo Feb 2020 #1
Pete won by 1/10 of 1% on delegates. It's effectively a tie, and Sanders is more of a threat highplainsdem Feb 2020 #2
What I really like about Pete FreeState Feb 2020 #5
Post removed Post removed Feb 2020 #7
Yes he is wonderful and I love his put downs. But black folks ain't feeling him and I don't see him UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #13
I'm not buying that FreeState Feb 2020 #21
I don't want to hear about the 5 black people in Iowa ...we need to see what happens in a UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #25
Wow FreeState Feb 2020 #28
I see that went right over your head. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #29
Apparently FreeState Feb 2020 #31
Except you didn't get the point at all. So your lagging behind a bit. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #33
While I understand the point you were trying to make squirecam Feb 2020 #30
Thanks for at least 'getting it' but I didn't say anything wrong. Point made...in your opinion UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #32
Excuse me ...I'll vote for anyone who I think can win. I'm not married to Biden....I'll switch in a UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #35
I like Pete. Pete is in low single digits with POC in SC redstateblues Feb 2020 #89
That may take a while. HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #3
Seems likely relayerbob Feb 2020 #4
Maybe, but I doubt it would hurt Bernie's support. DanTex Feb 2020 #6
She didn't attack Bernie - she was defending herself from the rhetoric blm Feb 2020 #15
Well, that was a very odd line of "defense" which obviously backfired. DanTex Feb 2020 #19
Because his supporters can't see him as ever having misstepped blm Feb 2020 #22
Denmark is not a socialist country, no matter how many times Sanders claims otherwise. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #17
Bernie isn't proposing literal "socialism", the policies he talks about are DanTex Feb 2020 #23
Why has he embraced the Democratic Socialist dictators Maduro and Morales? OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #42
Again, have fun with all that. It's not going to hurt him. Really not. DanTex Feb 2020 #48
Calling Social Security "socialism" is a right-wing talking point. It just ain't so. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #64
Right. So is "Venezuela", it's Megan McCain's favorite. DanTex Feb 2020 #70
Don't you dare try to lump me in with Megan McCain. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #72
You're making the Megan McCain argument. There's a reason it doesn't work. DanTex Feb 2020 #74
Well bless your heart, "Dan." OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #77
So true... it just makes Bernie STRONGER!!!!!!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2020 #81
Democratic socialism and social democracy aren't the same thing. TwilightZone Feb 2020 #45
Sure, but nobody cares about the terminology. DanTex Feb 2020 #51
You are kidding yourself. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #68
No, I'm really not. People really don't care about the dictionary definition of "socialism". DanTex Feb 2020 #76
Not a "dictionary definition, " but the correct and accurate OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #78
Again, avoiding policies and arguing terminology, proving my point. DanTex Feb 2020 #79
So true Dan... they're just proving your point!! Touche!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2020 #83
Tell us the fairy-tale about the BeRNie suRgE!!! again. Pwetty pwease? LanternWaste Feb 2020 #97
The Socialist moniker is a GE loser that will give us 4 more. redstateblues Feb 2020 #92
Socialism brings to mind Union of Soviet Socialist Republics redstateblues Feb 2020 #95
THIS +1,000!!!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2020 #82
He doesn't say he is Social Democrat. He calls himself a Democratic Socialist redstateblues Feb 2020 #90
Instead of Free College, ahoysrcsm Feb 2020 #96
Warren is unlikely to attack Bernie directly squirecam Feb 2020 #8
Yes, Biden can't just stand there and let others take the debate to him. Blue_true Feb 2020 #16
I don't expect him to. But I do think it would help Warren at this point to distinguish herself highplainsdem Feb 2020 #52
How will Warren pay for her promises? former9thward Feb 2020 #9
She laid that out two plus months ago. Blue_true Feb 2020 #18
I want to hear him discuss the kind of person for VP. I want to know if it will be a Democrat. krissey Feb 2020 #10
What if it's Tulsi? squirecam Feb 2020 #11
Horseshyt. Biden and Pete had no problem attacking Warren for 3mths straight, blm Feb 2020 #12
Biden has no choice squirecam Feb 2020 #14
Biden supporters are doing it tonight, pitting women against women with Warren campaign krissey Feb 2020 #20
There is no evidence that the NV women squirecam Feb 2020 #26
But they sure are using it to go after Warren. Not a single one has put up Warren statement. krissey Feb 2020 #46
Glad they still support her. I think Warren will take any responsibility for their leaving because emmaverybo Feb 2020 #34
Of course Warren takes responsibility. Now that she has heard, already has a statement out. krissey Feb 2020 #49
I am arguing only that no male candidate did the pitting alleged here. emmaverybo Feb 2020 #86
I don't understand how Elizabeth Warren can be blamed for that Nevada thing. It's ridiculous. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #38
Because the Biden people I see egging this fight on have spent the last couple months krissey Feb 2020 #53
And where is all this egging on going on? In real life or online? This is the first I'm hearing of UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #56
A couple sites on line. And I really need to mellow out. Lol krissey Feb 2020 #61
Well, at least you left accusations of "evil" and "hatred" out of this post. highplainsdem Feb 2020 #24
No, you want her to take the heat so Joe doesn't. And, based on the months of blm Feb 2020 #40
You are inventing "attacks" that never happened. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #44
They did. Google Biden attacks Warren and see there are 3mths blm Feb 2020 #50
Totally like gaslighting. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #58
She said the wrong primary. And WHAT was that in response to? blm Feb 2020 #62
A legitimate policy difference over the cost of MFA. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #71
Dishonest is not personal? Conning folks like Trump is not personal? blm Feb 2020 #73
He did no such thing. He questioned the wisdom of her support of the MFA... OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #75
Gee. Why did Joe and Pete focus fire on her INSTEAD of Sanders if blm Feb 2020 #80
Because she unwisely put out the numbers of what MFA would cost... OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #84
Check the dates on the articles. They attacked BEFORE she blm Feb 2020 #87
No "attacks." Pure inventions on your part. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #88
Yeah. I wrote every headline and report. You got me. blm Feb 2020 #91
Oh wow! Really scathing "attacks." OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #93
What nonsense. I said I expect both the moderators and rival candidates to go after Sanders. highplainsdem Feb 2020 #47
Play it any way you need to pretend Biden camp acted benignly. blm Feb 2020 #57
I'm not the one misinterpreting things here, blm. But why don't you post an OP to vent some of highplainsdem Feb 2020 #60
I post straight up all the time. I predicted months ago blm Feb 2020 #65
Sigh. So I guess the media questioning Warren earlier were part of the Biden and Buttigieg camps. highplainsdem Feb 2020 #67
No campaign effort to smear Warren? blm Feb 2020 #94
That pact she made with him is a double-edged sword. He hasn't held up his part. Yes, now she emmaverybo Feb 2020 #43
Thanks! And yes, that non-aggression pact helped only Sanders. His surrogates never paid attention highplainsdem Feb 2020 #55
They should. Enough free passes for Bernie still_one Feb 2020 #27
Bernie needs to be vetted calguy Feb 2020 #36
He sure does, and that includes his past still_one Feb 2020 #41
This is true because I didn't even know about quite a few things in his background that I UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #54
What's alternative? We all know the repubs will spend the money on war and more anyway, like... JoeOtterbein Feb 2020 #37
. democratisphere Feb 2020 #39
Are you laughing at my guess as to what will be the focus of the debate, or laughing at the thought highplainsdem Feb 2020 #63
ONLY the latter. democratisphere Feb 2020 #66
Thanks! And I can see why you call Sanders' ideas voodoo economics. I call it magical mystery highplainsdem Feb 2020 #69
Now that Sanders is widely considered the frontrunner I expect the same. Aaron Pereira Feb 2020 #59
Bernie Sanders' agenda: Its cost -- possibly $60 trillion -- would set a peacetime US record Gothmog Feb 2020 #85
If so, I hope every candidate has to answer that question. After all, opening up a public option Nanjeanne Feb 2020 #98
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