Sanders co-chairwoman on Warren: 'I know 30 years ago she was a Republican'

[RandySF]

A top adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday took a swipe at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) over the senator's affiliation with the Republican Party decades ago.

The remark from Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator and the co-chairwoman for Sanders’s presidential campaign, comes amid rising tensions between the two leading progressives in the Democratic primary race.

Turner’s comments came after Warren asserted during Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate that she was the only candidate on stage to have defeated a Republican incumbent at any point in the past 30 years.

That sparked a brief exchange with Sanders, who noted that he had defeated an incumbent Republican in 1990, the year he first won election to the House.

“Thirty years ago?” Warren asked. “I said I was the only one who's beaten an incumbent Republican in 30 years.”

Asked after the debate about whether Warren’s remark was unfair to Sanders, Turner took a jab at the Massachusetts senator.

“You should ask [Warren] that, but I know 30 years ago she was a Republican,” Turner told reporters, according to HuffPost.

Turner's comment came as tensions have mounted between Sanders and Warren after news reports emerged that Sanders told Warren during a private dinner in December 2018 that he did not believe a woman could win the presidency.

Warren appeared to confirm those reports on Monday, recalling how Sanders had “disagreed” with her when she told him she believed a woman could win the White House.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/478385-sanders-co-chair-on-warren-i-know-30-years-ago-she-was-a-republican

[Cha]

1. Yeah yeah.. lol@nina trying to drag on

EW with that.

[msongs]

2. liz saw the light and found the way. bernie not so much...yet anyway lol nt

[John Fante]

3. I know that three years ago Nina Turner voted for Jill Stein.

She is to progressivism what Donald Trump is to comprehensible English.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. 30 years ago Bernie wasn't a Democrat either.

The difference between them is that he still isn't.

[George II]

12. See my post #11 below - Warren has been a Democrat for 25 years, he's been one for only....

...about 2 years split up between 2015/2016 and now 2019/2020.

[Bradshaw3]

5. Yet another thread from a Biden supporter on the "feud"

They sure do seem far more interested in this than others. I wonder why.

[Skittles]

8. because it's the primaries and that's what people do?

buckle up

[Bradshaw3]

9. Try to promote divisions?

That's what they do to help their candidate?

[Skittles]

10. reporting the facts is what I see

sorry if people cannot take it

[Bradshaw3]

17. Is THAT what you call it? Fail

Yeah right. They all just happen to be from Biden supporters who are simply "reporting the facts".

[Skittles]

20. as I said

some people cannot handle it

[Bradshaw3]

21. Internet tough guy acts don't inpress me

Neither do one-line potshots. If that's all you got (it seems to be from looking at other posts) then it just shows how much your input is valued (you can guess as to how much). What is does do is serve to divide and demoralize, but if it fulfills some ego need of yours go right ahead. Doesn't bother me.

[Skittles]

25. LOL....doesn't bother you

ALRIGHTY THEN

over and OUT

[RandySF]

30. Turner didn't say it?

[Renew Deal]

6. That's ironic coming from someone that was never a Democrat.

[evertonfc]

7. Turner is as vile as they come

She is a despicable person. Bernie keeps poor company and she is the type that would keep some moderate or independents from supporting Sanders and runs the risk of the same in General. She's a self serving loud mouth.

[George II]

11. Even though she's "only" been a Democrat for about 25 years, that's about 23 longer....

....than Sanders has been a Democrat in his two brief stints as a "Democrat".

That was a ridiculous and uncalled for comment for the co-chair of a national campaign to make. But it's in keeping with the comments we've seen from her and her co-workers Gray and Sirota.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. And REAGAN WAS A DEMOCRAT 30 years before he was elected POTUS.

How'd THAT work out ? ? ? ?

[MineralMan]

14. "Let's You and Him Fight!"

Any time two candidates from the same party start duking it out, look for the candidate who is standing quietly and smiling. That candidate is who benefits.

Sanders' campaign team recently started ganging up on Warren. They're doing that in the background, leaving Sanders to look puzzled when it comes up, sort of.

Warren's not having any of that.

Biden is observing and keeping his silence, smiling all the while.

[BlueMTexpat]

15. I know that Nina's candidate

only becomes a Dem whenever he runs for President.

And even then, he keeps himself registered as an Independent for his Senate seat.

[melman]

16. Warren walked right into that one

She brought up 30 year time frame herself. Nothing wrong with talking about the reality.

[peggysue2]

18. The Sanders' campaign really shouldn't go there

Because Bernie has far more ugly skeletons in his closet than a 'once upon a time' Republican affiliation.

Very short-sighted.

[BuffaloJackalope]

19. Better that people like Warren are coming to the Democratic Party,

as opposed to Turner et al going away from it.

[MrsCoffee]

22. I know four years ago Turner was a Stein supporter. She needs to go away.

[NYMinute]

24. Moral of the story

Never give an aggressively stupid person a mic in front of the camera.

[NYMinute]

23. At least she has been a Democrat for over 20 years

How long has Sen Sanders been a Democrat? Total less than a year?

[walkingman]

26. It is nothing but a turn off to voters by harping on this. We need all of our voters to show up and

making a Sander/Warren feud is really dumb.

[sheshe2]

27. Hey Nina?

How many years has Bernie been a Democrat?

[Wawannabe]

28. And. TODAY. Bernie is an Independent

[RhodeIslandOne]

29. Nina Turner voted for a Russian asset in 2016