NEW: Sen. Elizabeth Warren confirmed reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders told her during a December 2018 meeting that a woman couldn't win the presidency.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said late Monday that Sen. Bernie Sanders had told her he didn't think a woman could win the 2020 election — a statement the Sanders campaign had blasted as"a lie" earlier in the day.
"Bernie and I met for more than two hours in December 2018 to discuss the 2020 election, our past work together and our shared goals," the Massachusetts senator said in a statement."Among the topics that came up was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate. I thought a woman could win; he disagreed," she said.on the 2018 meeting on CNN earlier in the day Sanders and his campaign vigorously disputed.
"It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn't win. It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened," he said.
He added that"of course" a woman could win."After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016," Sanders said.In her statement, Warren said"I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further because Bernie and I have far more in common than on our differences on punditry.
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