Sanders' campaign: Warren only appeals to 'affluent'

[left-of-center2012]

Sanders campaign urging volunteers to tell Warren supporters she only appeals to 'affluent'

A script being distributed by Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign to volunteers reportedly presents Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as a 2020 candidate who appeals predominantly to better-educated, wealthier voters.

The script instructs volunteers to tell voters leaning toward the Massachusetts senator that “I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional] In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.”

It goes on to instruct volunteers to say “people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what” and that “[s]he's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party,” the news outlet reported.

Politico added that instructs volunteers to take aim at the electability in the other candidates within the top tier of the Democratic field as well, pointing out former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s lack of support among African Americans and young people and saying that former Vice President Joe Biden “doesn’t really have any volunteers” and fails to generate excitement even among supporters.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/477868-sanders-campaign-telling-volunteers-to-tell-warren-supporters-she-only

[bluedye33139]

1. How to weaponize sexism in the working class

"Let's only forward male politicians because working class populations have no interest in equality."

It seems like a very toxic element to introduce into politics.

[blm]

17. Yes, elitist charges made against the most pro-working class platform

that happened to be formed by a woman candidate and she is the one smeared as the elitist by other camps.

[UniteFightBack]

2. Dirty dirty dirty...and guess who's first name comes right after that? It has a ring to it. nt

[LakeArenal]

3. We knew it would happen.

Biden Warren, Buttigieg The established Democrats. He doesn’t seem to like us very much.

[TexasTowelie]

45. It happened with O'Rourke too. nt

[blm]

4. Sad, and coupled with Biden camp attacking EW as an elitist. So wrongheaded.

They know she is not elitist and they know her platform is a solid boon to all working families and the most vulnerable of us. These strategists are being cruelly dishonest, but, are willing to trash a great woman in order to make personal political gains at her expense.


https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/joe-biden-calls-warren-elitist-066637

Elitist': Biden steps up attacks on Warren

The former VP is looking to stoke resentment among working class voters by casting Warren as a snooty Harvard professor.

[George II]

8. When and where has the Biden camp attacked her as an elitist?

[blm]

9. Surely, you jest?

[BeyondGeography]

10. Lol

But that was so October!

[blm]

11. And November

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/joe-biden-elizabeth-warren.html

Joe Biden Ramps Up Attacks on Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Credibility


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/us/politics/joe-biden-sexist-elizabeth-warren.html
The New York Times
Biden's Attacks on Warren Turn Personal, Drawing Some Complaints of Sexism

Nov 10, 2019 · By calling Warren's approach “condescending,” “angry” and elitist, Biden and his allies are making a risky case against a female candidate. He says the criticism has nothing to do with ...

[George II]

13. No, I don't surely jest.

[blm]

15. Well, you must have missed October and November where

It was open season on Warren after Sanders’ heart attack dampened attacks on him.

There are a few articles detailing Biden camp’s attacks on Warren as an elitist. You can find more than I posted.

[Demsrule86]

27. And what began that exchange that used no names as I recall...Warren saying Biden was running

in he wrong primary...IE he is not a Democrat...and you know this. That is not what Bernie is doing...he is using attempting to destroy her and she did nothing to him...I have never worked a campaign that used a script like Sanders is using. Disgraceful.

[whistler162]

21. No and don't call him Shirley!

[blm]

25. So, your own post on this means you really DIDN'T know

That Biden camp was attacking Warren as an elitist throughout October and November?

It was wrong of Sanders camp to do it. It was wrong of Biden’s camp to do it. Wrong of Buttegieg.

It is a downright lie when Republicans say it every election against every Dem.

[George II]

26. Again, it wasn't attacking her as an elitist (that would be an all-encompassing characterization)...

...he said on the particular topic he was discussing she had an elitist attitude.

But whatever -

[blm]

29. Two months of it. You want Sanders to pay a price for his wrongheaded

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attack on Warren, and make excuses for Biden’s use of those attacks.

I want to defend Warren from that wrongheaded GOP myth line of attack that they roll out every election against every Dem, especially as she has the most pro-working family platform of any candidate.

[Bummfuzzle]

16. Right. Now listening to Biden supporters being outraged by Sanders for the attack on Warren

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has me shaking my head. They have spent the last months creating Warren as synonymous with Sanders. Warren had the middle age and educated Democratic base vote (HRC voters) and Biden people spent all this time making her the same as Sanders knowing the base has an issue with Sanders walking into the party trashing it. A vote for Warren was a vote for Sanders. Always tie her in as not part of the party, and a socialist. Always make it "Warren and Sanders". A fiscal conservative that turned into a socialist.

Sanders people held onto her because their guy wasn't doing well, and needed her to bolster them. Give them legitimacy.

This primary has made me look at the Biden supporters differently than I did with HRC or Obama supporters. They feel more like Bros. I watched them stoke the flame with Harris supporters, laying it all on Warren attacking her causing Harris issues. Biden and his supporters were the ones that spent a month going after her when her poll numbers were higher for daring to speak her mind about Biden segregation issues. How dare Booker and Harris have an opinion and speak out loud. And now they act like that didn't happen, and all along they were kind to Harris and it was wicked Warren that attacked Harris.

We have Sanders all out trashing our Democrats and I would like to see our top four take off their gloves, and unite in taking him down.

[blm]

19. Any camp pushing this lie against Warren is wrong.

Biden, Bernie, Buttegieg......heck, this is a GOP lie that they have pushed on every Dem candidate of the last 6 decades.

[Bummfuzzle]

22. I was surprised as heck to hear it, for sure. I thought the same. I also remember

any conversation of Biden the outrage at an attack. Yet, when he called Warren an elitist, crickets.

[Cha]

30. I'm not "outraged".. it's typical BS.. that's what he does.

I don't like anybody using that GD word attacking Dems.

BS called the whole Dem Party "Elite" after the fascists took over the WH.

Bernie Sanders 'deeply humiliated' Democrats lost white working-class voters

Washington (CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders expressed his disappointment Monday with Hillary Clinton's failure to secure the support of white working-class voters in last week's presidential election.

Donald Trump "very effectively" tapped into "the anger and angst and pain that many working class people are feeling," the Vermont independent senator who challenged Clinton in the Democratic primary said on "CBS This Morning."

"I think that there needs to be a profound change in the way the Democratic Party does business," Sanders said. "It is not good enough to have a liberal elite. I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to where I came from."

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/bernie-sanders-humiliated-democrats-loss-working-class-voters/index.html

The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512645001

[Bummfuzzle]

33. Biden did the same thing using elitism to paint Warren as not for the working class, but he is.

For decades I have been arguing that with Republicans. 2016 I continually argued HRC was more pro working family than any of the candidates including Sanders, in many ways. And today, I argue it with both Biden and Sanders attacking Warren as not being for the working class. That having the educated vote is somehow less.

[Cha]

36. And, I said.. I don't like it. BS does it All the TIME.

[Bummfuzzle]

43. Thank you.

I should have taken you at your word the first time you said it. I respect this. Our candidates may make an oops and we can call it, and still like and respect our candidates. You are right. Biden is a solid Democrat that has spent his life building the party, making it strong, and in full support.

Sanders has spent his lifetime despising Democrats.

Big difference.

[Demsrule86]

28. She said he wasn't a Democrat ...running in the wrong primary...he said it was elitist to believe

anyone who disagreed with you was not a 'real' Democrat and he was right. He did not say what Sanders is saying now nor did he use this as Sanders is using this now.

[Cha]

37. omg.. that's right.. EW did say that..

[Demsrule86]

40. That is what began the exchange...but there was no script or running on it for money or votes.

[Cha]

41. Thanks.. seems some people convenientlyl FoRGET That.

Jeeze how things get distorted.

[question everything]

5. OK Senator Warren. Time to stop playing nice with him

Yes, until now you have been kinda in a lockstep. Many here still want both of you on the same ticket but did you really think that he is a team member? That he can play nice? Always marching to his own drums (and ambitions) and takes whatever steps necessary. Remember, he wanted someone to primary challenge Obama in 2012?

[Cha]

38. Way past time.. it's NOT Working.

[kcr]

6. So,

Warren is "bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party" but her voters will vote Democratic no matter what. But Bernie will somehow manage to broaden the base while promoting voting only for a small subset of Dems? He really doesn't expect deep thinking from the voters he courts.

[BlueMTexpat]

46. Exactly right! eom

[The Valley Below]

7. Scorched earth.

Alienate everyone.

Tired of this BS!

[blm]

12. It's calculating and cruel. Manipulative

and dishonest.

Strategists in some camps believe this works, and for some it does.

[kcr]

14. That's exactly the problem. It only works for some.

And it's why he didn't win in 2016 and why he won't in 2020. And it's just enough to prevent a bold, strong progressive movement from actually gaining traction in our country. It's divisive and ineffective. People who truly want a transformative movement in our country should NOT back Bernie Sanders. He does have many good ideas. It's a shame he can't actually be more effective.

[MH1]

18. +1000. nt

[Cha]

39. Such a "uniter" NOT

[BlueMTexpat]

47. + a million or so! eom

[Nanjeanne]

20. This is a story based on a "script" that is not part of the Sanders campaign. I am a phone banker

for Sanders and this is most definitely not a campaign script given to any volunteer. None of my training includes anything remotely like this. We are told not to comment on other candidates and pivot back to Sanders if anyone brings up another candidate. All videos on Sanders training site also reiterate that no mention of other candidates is encouraged.

Hundreds of volunteers like myself have been tweeting that this is completely inaccurate and is not a Sanders campaign "script" but this story is still taking off - especially by those who want to believe it's true. It's sad to see it here on DU but I have come to be saddened often.

It is entirely possible someone put together some talking points on their own but this is most definitely not a instructions from the Sanders campaign to their staffers. This story is like the telephone game. No one has shown an actual verified script from the Sanders campaign to prove this is real. Only some typed words that "someone" attributes to the formal Sanders campaign.

I'm sure my instructions as a Sanders volunteer will mean nothing to those who choose to believe otherwise. But what a strange world we live in when this kind of anonymous so-called script takes on it's own life and is repeated by others to verify it's accuracy.

[Demsrule86]

31. If what you say is true than why hasn't Sanders made a statement...he said 'no comment' I believe.

[Nanjeanne]

42. I don't know. I am a volunteer. I only hear from Bernie on strategy calls. But im

not the only volunteer saying this. So far no one except the anonymous typed script reporters are saying otherwise.

[blm]

35. Will check further. Right now

it’s a familiar hurt. Been fighting against this GOP style tactic since October.

[Nanjeanne]

44. Actually what is being reported as a possible comment re Warren is not

anything terrible. It’s just that we have received no instructions and no training to support the story. Don’t feel badly. People are constantly saying Sanders has no minority support. My shoulders shrug. They are trying to create conflict between the Sanders and Warren supporters now. It’s all bs. Together we succeed.

[brooklynite]

23. Bernie Sanders net worth: $2.5 Million

"Middle Class"?

[dana_b]

24. Again, false things being reported on account

of one person in a private group. Politico needs to do much better

[Demsrule86]

32. It seems to me a sneaky sort of way to get a message out...Warren is elitist which she is not...

and still be able to deny you did it.

[blm]

34. The press loves to post attacks on Warren, whether true or not.

Curious about the Biden supporters now focusing on the wrongness of the attack even if proven to be a false story. They excused it throughout October and November when the elitist tactic was being used by their campaign.