“How could anybody in a million years not believe that a woman could not become the president of the United States?” Sanders said on stage at the DemDebate.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren got into a debate over a major controversy that erupted in the days leading up to the debate: Whether Sanders had told Warren that a woman could not win the presidency.
“As a matter of fact I didn’t say it,” Sanders said. “How could anybody in a million years not believe that a woman could not become the president of the United States?” Moderator Abby Phillip appeared not to buy his answer: What did you think when Bernie Sanders told you that a woman could not be president, Phillip asked Warren.Warren turned the question into an argument for female candidates, repeatedly arguing that women candidates"outperform" male candidates.
“The only people on this stage who have won every single election they've been in are the women,” she said.
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