Sanders and Warren don’t want to talk about it
“I have no further comment on this,” Warren told reporters Thursday. Sanders didn’t want any part of it either, staying quiet as reporters pelted him with questions, while his campaign circulated a set of new talking points, obtained by POLITICO, that read: “Please refrain from commenting on the CNN story on the meeting between Bernie and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Conflict between the progressive campaigns threatens to distract from their primary strategies at a critical time, less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Sanders wants to spend the final weeks taking on former Vice President Joe Biden on policy, while Warren is intent on pitching herself as a unity candidate with appeal to both wings of the Democratic Party.
And if one of them is to win the nomination, they will likely need significant backing from the other’s supporters eventually, which is why the back-and-forth has freaked out left-wing organizations and activists who see the conflict as a boon to Biden — and insist it’s all in the rearview mirror. “Both camps are over this and focused on drilling into Iowa voters’ heads that Joe Biden is the least inspirational and least electable nominee we can put forward,” said Stephanie Taylor, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a group aligned with the Warren campaign.
But some allies of both campaigns have continued talking about the conflict. “She betrayed him as a friend and showed him that there are no friends in politics,” Ja’Mal Green, a Sanders surrogate and Chicago community organizer,
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