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"Warren’s senior adviser Dan Geldon privately communicated with Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir in an attempt to stop the tweets."

So THAT'S what was going on. @ewarren is such weak sauce her team demanded everyone STFU about her.

politico.com/news/2020/01/1…
@ewarren This framing by @politico is inaccurate and unfair: "The number of critical tweets did decline, but some Sanders aides, including policy adviser Warren Gunnels, have continued to occasionally jab at her."

It links to two specific tweets written in defense - not offense.
@ewarren @politico @ewarren threw the first punch when she accused Sanders of increasing black-white wealth gap by cancelling all student debt

- Sanders cancels everything
- Warren caps relief at $50K

When asked why she caps relief at $50k, Warren claimed Sanders' plan hurts the black community
@ewarren @politico Again on September 25, @ewarren threw the first punch at a campaign stop and told voters #MedicareForAll is inadequate bc it's just a framework

In defense, Sanders clarified it's a very specific 100-page bill

(Why is @ewarren allowed to run her mouth off w/o being challenged?)
@ewarren @politico I mean, can someone explain what kind of "decorum" or standard is expected of @ewarren opponents?

She's allowed to slam, criticize or jab at their proposals and character 24/7 but no one is allowed to defend themselves or pushback? Who is she? A queen? Why is she even running?
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This is important. Don't buy into the narrative that we somehow "need" Elizabeth Warren in a brokered convention.

The goal is defeat her early in IA and NH so that Bernie can begin consolidating support as the sole progressive alternative to Joe Biden.
We know these narratives about "needing Warren" to "combine delegates" are dubious bc Bernie's senior adviser, Jeff Weaver recently said the Sanders campaign anticipates winning on the first ballot.

And Weaver's logic checks out. Read the article.
In fact, delegate analysts paying attention know:

1. The 15% threshold has built-in winnowing effect

2. A brokered convention is extremely rare and highly unlikely

3. Bandwagon effect, voters prioritize candidates capable of winning states and delegates
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Making a list comparing ALL of Bernie's plans to Warren's plans to prove she isn't more "specific and detailed and has more plans" than Bernie.

"I have a plan" is empty sloganeering and libs need to admit it.
Bernie has 31 plans on his site, Warren has 52

But bear in mind Numerical count ≠ More 'specific' or 'policy-focused' ⁠— scope and quality of these plans matter

For e.g. Bernie's #GND (1 comprehensive plan) covered everything in Warren's 'Green' plans (6 separate plans)
HEALTHCARE: Sanders and Warren

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#SinglePayer
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Elizabeth Warren said she was sexually harassed by a former colleague at work. A "senior faculty member" when she was just a "baby law professor."

He slammed the door, lunged for her and chased her around his desk trying to get his hands on her.
She pleaded with him, "You don't want to do this... you don't want to do this... I have little children at home. Please don't do this..."

This was publicized as a frightening and empowering story at the height of #MeToo movement.
But the former colleague in question, was handicapped from polio disease the entire time. He walked with difficulty.

When Warren eulogized him at his memorial service in 1997, she spoke fondly of her alleged assailant.

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#ElizabethWarren's bill reminds me of Romney's advice to youths in 4/2012, "Borrow money, if you have to, from your parents. Start a business... [Jimmy John Liautaud] borrowed $20K from his dad..."

The loan was c. 7/82 and was actually $25K.
$25K in 7/82 = $59K in 4/12
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This is sick👇😡@neeratanden's McCarthyist smears of @TulsiGabbard, a major in the national guard, and Congresswoman with higher security vetting than any of the candidates, a veteran who has literally put her life on the line to defend this country, losing friends in the process
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Bernie’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir used to be an editor at ThinkProgress, which published the articles this letter is complaining about.

Is he suggesting that ThinkProgress is a mouthpiece of CAP, or even more to the point, should be ideologically corrected by it?
To be clear, I’m not commenting here on CAP, ThinkProgress or the Bernie campaign, whatever views anyone holds about them institutionally.

The premise of this letter, however, seems to be not only that CAP calls the shots at ThinkProgress, but that it should, more favorably.
That’s... not how firewalls work.
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This awed tone of MSM coverage of #Sanders is so gendered.

Harris and Klobuchar are both daughters of single mothers who had to raise their kids alone after their husbands left the families.
Warren also grew up in a working class family in Oklahoma.

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Money was a stress for these women's families as well. Klobuchar has spoken movingly of her family's estrangement from her father, an alcoholic.
But the coverage of these women not only hasn't reflected this awe of their families' struggles, but has been harshly critical.

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No one has situated Klobuchar's perfectionism within the well-documented construct of being the child of an alcoholic fighting chaos.

Harris and Klobuchar both had to work harder than their male counterparts to get on their college & career paths, due to their backgrounds.
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