Iowa Debate Preview: All Eyes On The Warren-Sanders Fight

Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — along with four other candidates — will meet on the debate stage Tuesday as a contentious back-and-forth over an alleged sexist comment from Sanders has dominated the headlines.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1284424

If Biden wins Iowa, it’s all over folks. He’s our nominee.

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It does no one any good to publicly debate what was or wasn’t said about the electability of women to the presidency. I hope all of them focus on issues–health care, trade wars, climate change, Trump’s Iran lies, and what’s important to Democrats.

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Amy should declare Steyer a sexist, and Tom should vehemently deny it. That’s what passes for debate these days, right?

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Trump didn’t win Iowa. Just sayin’.

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“All Eyes on the Warren-Sanders Fight”

Because there’s nothing more important on which to focus. My gawd…

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BuzzFeed reporting shows that team Warren wants to deescalate the situation

But billionaires sure as shit don’t so here’s yet another story about this non-story on a news site…

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Articles like these make me want to respond to the “Why Did You Subscribe?” article by canceling my subscription.

How’s that for a fucking answer, TPM?

DO. BETTER.

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Then, on Monday, CNN published a [piece] about a conversation the two had had in December 2018 about their prospective bids, including that Sanders told Warren he didn’t think a woman could win the election.

That’s where things stand rolling into the Iowa debate, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register newspaper.

How convenient. Watch Tapper work overtime trying to catch candidates with loaded questions while demanding a yes or no in order to create Republican talking points.

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It’s articles like these that keep me from signing up

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“We dig into the growing feud between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.”

Shorter TPM: “Please cancel your subscriptions. We’ve lost our fucking minds.”

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Not so much a fight as a necessary adjustment in the thinning of the field.

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I’m not going to watch it.
Don’t need to watch to #VoteBlueNoMatterWho.

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Historically, Iowa has been Biden’s great white whale. If he loses Iowa – as I expect he probably will – you might want to step back from the resulting tailspin.

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“I am mad that TPM is covering the fact that mom and dad are fighting. I would prefer to inhabit a reality where this isn’t actually happening”

Anyhoo, #teamklob tonight. No illusions that it’s likely, but a man can dream.

How does this not just make it worse that you covered it like a real feud and egged it all on by doing so? You basically just admitted to being fully aware all along that what you were doing has essentially been fake, shit-stirring nonsense.

Publishing shit stories followed by a glib acknowledgment that they’ve been shit stories doesn’t cut it for me.

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Same.

I stopped caring some time back since I’ll vote for whomever ends up with the D next to their name on the ballot in the general.

I plan to vote for the front runner in the primary.

I think I stopped caring when Kamala Harris dropped out. I really like Kamala.

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Same here. You couldn’t hire me to watch these ridiculous game shows. I trust my fellow Democrats to join me at the polls and pick the right nominee despite this dumb “Dancing with the Dems” series.

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Gotta get that centrist in who won’t threaten wall-street profits at all cost…

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Can’t see where she has much of a chance anymore unless something really weird happens.