Sanders camp admits anti-Warren script was deployed in multiple early states

[DURHAM D]

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

1. Who is surprised by this?

[DarthDem]

2. Not I

Completely predictable in all senses.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Not surprised!!! Highly doubt he will ever take credit for the attacks on other candidates!!

He should!!

[Demsrule86]

3. I am not surprised that it wasn't a rogue campaign guy that any campaign could harbor

Hard to see how Sanders didn't know abut this...not a good look Sen. Sanders.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Sigh

[Thekaspervote]

5. Imho Warren made her biggest mistake by not dumping bernie a long time ago!!

I like her, but when she hit the campaign trail it was like listening to sanders. She’s smart, she should have developed and then gone with her own plans. They could be similar...but they’re the same.

Warren voters don’t like sanders and vice versa

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/sanders-warren-voters-2020-1408548

[peggysue2]

15. I agree, Kas

Warren has alway been the stronger candidate. Her biggest mistake was joining Sanders at the hip on Medicare4All and then pulling back too late. The decision never made sense to me because you're right--Warren is whip smart and has had a huge following with her work in the Senate, holding the financial industry's feet to the fire. To hear her on those panels, watch a number of smarmy CEOs squirm and wriggle has been a thing of beauty. She should have gone her own way because it's pretty clear that Sanders' campaign people have no problem going for the throat when they're feeling threatened.

Very unattractive trait of Sanders' campaign strategy. Always has been.

[Bummfuzzle]

19. She kept herself a distance, well in the Democratic party and she was doing well.

When she went the Sanders m4f, she took the wrong direction.

I agree.

[George II]

6. Awkward! Here's the article:

Sanders camp admits anti-Warren script was deployed in multiple early states

Sanders initially attributed the talking points to rogue staffers, and supporters launched an online campaign to convince people the document was fake.

By ALEX THOMPSON and HOLLY OTTERBEIN
01/14/2020 05:06 PM EST Updated: 01/14/2020 05:50 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa — The controversial talking points attacking Elizabeth Warren that Bernie Sanders' campaign deployed were given to teams in at least two early voting states on Friday, three Sanders campaign officials confirmed.

Volunteers and staffers used the script on Saturday while canvassing for votes, meaning the talking points were more official than what Sanders previously suggested after POLITICO reported on the language.

The campaign pulled back the script — which described Warren's appeal as limited to the highly educated and financially well off — later on Saturday after the story published. Sanders initially appeared to blame the controversy on rogue employees.

“We have hundreds of employees. Elizabeth Warren has hundreds of employees. And people sometimes say things that they shouldn’t,” Sanders said Sunday in Iowa. His press aides never denied the veracity of the document.

The script mostly focused on Sanders' ability to beat President Donald Trump in a general election. But one page included attacks on the electability of Warren, as well as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg.

“The language was pulled because it was sloppily worded,” a Sanders official said, confirming that the script was an official campaign document.

Also from the article:

Some Sanders’ supporters claimed over the weekend that the campaign script wasn’t genuine and that the story was false. Sanders campaign photographer Bryan Lawrence also tweeted that the talking points were “unapproved.”

On Sunday, the Sanders campaign provided a new script and instructed officials in early states to stop giving volunteers the old one, according to two Sanders officials. A Warren aide told POLITICO that her campaign appreciated Sanders pulling the talking points and that they hoped to move on.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/14/sanders-admits-anti-warren-script-early-states-098786

[Thekaspervote]

8. Guess we're gonna have an up close look at how scorched earth worked for sanders

[Cha]

12. Yeah, and BS claims they're "friends" and they were

going to be "civil".. they wouldn't admit what they're doing.. why are they letting the "cat out of the bag" now?

They make me sick

[Quackers]

9. Now the goal post will change. It will be said that this really wasn't that bad or that it was

Just stating facts and there’s nothing wrong with it.

[Docreed2003]

10. Now the question on everyone's mind is

Will Bernie take responsibility for his campaign underlings and apologize?

[MH1]

14. LOL

Not holding my breath at all.

[mcar]

13. Fits in with his campaigning record

[Blue_true]

16. So Bernie gets caught, again, then he fessed up and says something? was done. nt

[brooklynite]

17. Per John Heilemann: there were anti-Buttigieg scripts as well.

[Bummfuzzle]

18. Can you believe? I keep seeing the campaign run not like Democrats. Surprise. Sanders is not a

Democrat.

Sanders said....

And it was not true. There was a script and in more than one state.

[RandySF]

21. .

[TomCADem]

22. Bernie "Scorched Earth" Sanders Strikes Again

What is so deeply dishonest is how he insists that he does not negatively campaign, yet that is what his campaign is built on. Rather than build a movement, Bernie is focusing on trying to make everyone else unelectable.