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LordoftheMorons posted...

You don't think he could have even made the rather innocuous judgment that the sexism of the electorate was an electoral disadvantage? Really?

My personal suspicion is that Sanders' thought he "deserved" to be the progressive-lane candidate because of his 2016 run, and had to back-justify that with things like "a woman can't win" (which would be bad, though I don't think sexism is the motivation in that case). I could be wrong though and it's just the first possibility! But in any case, I don't see any reason to believe that Warren is lying.

You are talking about the factual content of specific words and sentences from over a year ago, in a conversation no one recorded. There is no way you are going to have any kind of accuracy of memory with regard to specific words - what people will remember is what they understood the conversation to mean.

And it's obvious that the way Warren has presented this has been as an attack. She doesn't want it to look like she's the one making the attack, but nonetheless she has made it. She knew perfectly well what it all meant. It's no different from Trump preferring to have an accusation against Biden come from the Ukrainian government rather than directly from the Trump campaign.

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