 Well, the 2020 Democratic Party primary is officially getting ugly and it is all because of Bernie Sanders Now, of course, you would believe that if you only consumed mainstream media But Politico published a piece where they are alleging that Bernie Sanders is now stealthily attacking Elizabeth Warren or more specifically They're saying that Bernie is instructing his volunteers to attack Elizabeth Warren So as Alex Thompson and Holly Otter being of Politico, right? Sanders campaign has begun stealthily attacking Warren as a candidate of the upper crust who could not expand at the Democratic base in a general election According to talking points his campaign is using to sway voters and obtained by Politico The script instructs Sanders volunteers to tell voters leading toward the Massachusetts senator that the people who support her are Highly educated more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what and that she's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party I like Elizabeth Warren optional the script begins. In fact, she's my second choice But here's my concern about her it then pivots to the criticisms of Warren Now, I don't know why Politico chose to characterize this as an attack in the first place because if you're just citing the demographics of People who support a particular candidate, you know, assuming that you have the statistical data to back it up That's not an attack. That's just stating a fact And I mean, I'm sure that most campaigns have some type of script So that way their volunteers know how to respond to you know A voter that they contact if they support a different campaign But what really makes this ironic is that Politico is calling this an attack when they're the ones who originally Published this attack because back in July. This is an article that they put out quote Sanders and Warren voters have astonishingly little in common His backers are younger make less money have fewer degrees and are less engaged in politics And if you'll notice the author of this article is none other than Holly Otterbean Who is the same person who co-published the article that we just read where this statistic is, you know Apparently an attack or a stealth attack as they put it and they also tweeted out what they now deem is an attack on Warren And as 2020 candidate Anthony Clark puts it. You can't make this shit up. Exactly This is a perfect example of how the corporate media tries to manufacture some type of controversy They cited statistics wrote an article about this and now that same author is saying because one of Bernie's volunteers Is using this data that we published. Well, that's an attack on Elizabeth Warren So the story ended up itself is nonsensical But you would expect Elizabeth Warren to not take the bait because that's what she's done However, she didn't do that. She took this story Ran with it and is now Playing the victim and she's saying I can't believe that Bernie Sanders would attack me like this and trash me like this She's feigning outrage. So take a look at what she had to say Bernie Sanders campaign and the way that they are talking about you at the doors here in Iowa Basically saying that your voters are people who will vote democrat anyway that don't bring new bases into the democratic tank Why is he wrong? I was Disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me Bernie knows me and has known me for a long time Who knows who I am where I come from What I've worked on and fought for and the coalition and grassroots We're trying to build Democrats want to be And we all saw the impact of the factionalism in 2016 And we can't have a Democrats need to unite our party and that means pulling in all parts of the democratic coalition It means building a grassroots movement with face-to-face conversations with people or not It means getting all positive messages out to people That's how we will lead Donald Trump We cannot nominate someone who takes big chunks of the democratic coalition for granted But we need someone who will bring our party together We need someone who will excite every part of the democratic party Someone who will Someone that every democrat can believe in I hope Bernie considers And turns his campaign into a different challenge You say you need someone who every democrat you got behind, is that not Bernie Sanders? I believe we need someone every democrat and everyone I'm not gonna fight him for every So, um, she took the bait And she is absolutely playing the victim and I'll tell you why I think she's doing this But she says I was disappointed to hear that Bernie sent his volunteers out to trash me And I hope Bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction Really Warren? Really? Now on top of that, um She essentially implies that he was responsible for the division in 2016 after she admitted in 2017 That the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders So if that were the case if she believed that even if she walked it back, you know, of course, it wouldn't be Bernie Who was responsible for the division wouldn't you assume that it was The establishment for fucking over Bernie and his supporters that catalyzed this division in the first place So, I mean she is taking this story and she's running with it and I think it's because she knows her numbers are down she Needs to attack Bernie Sanders in order to increase in the polls and gain more articles about herself But she doesn't want to come across as the bad guy. So what is she doing? She's playing victim so that way she can attack Bernie Sanders or claim that he's attacking her And then she can attack him and say well look he drew first blood I think this is what she's trying to do But what's even more interesting about this is the story was misrepresented by political because a Bernie Sanders volunteer actually reached out And confirmed that this wasn't something that the Bernie, you know, headquarters, if you will Had sent out and instructed people in the campaign to do This is just something that one Bernie volunteer posted in a slack group for Bernie volunteers And Eric Isaac who's a Bernie volunteer clarified on twitter saying here's what actually happened A random user who's only ever posted once before Posted that document in the Sanders volunteer slack group a moderator promptly removed it and stated that it was not a campaign source Bernie is not sending his volunteers out to trash any candidate We have a very strict code of conduct on how we must interact with voters if we want to be part of the campaign Politico and every other outlet reporting on this non-story are being incredibly irresponsible I would happily post a screenshot of the conversation in slack But then I would be violating the agreement I made with the campaign to not share screenshots from slack They delete anything that talks about any other candidate in a negative way I could right now go dump a document criticizing every candidate in Warren's campaign's app Then screenshot it and send it to Politico so they could write a story about it This was not a campaign maneuver period So given that Elizabeth Warren probably has the same type of platform where her volunteers communicate She should know that this story and the details about it were dubious But she took the bait and she decided to run with it because she wanted some type of excuse to attack Bernie Sanders herself Now she decided to take this to the next level She doubled down and is now fundraising off of this attack lobbed against her by Bernie's campaign So she sent out an email this morning saying last night we got some disappointing news Bernie Sanders campaign is instructing volunteers to dismiss our broad-based inclusive campaign Saying the people who support Elizabeth are highly educated more affluent people When I heard that description, I didn't recognize it. That doesn't describe me or many of the passionate volunteers and organizers I know this type of attack isn't about disagreeing on issues. It's about dismissing the potency of our grassroots movement Let's be clear as a party and as a country We can't afford to repeat the factionalism of the 2016 primary to win in november We need a nominee who can unite a broad coalition of democrats who will excite every part of the democratic party And inspire more people to join the fight If you want the democratic primary to be about a substantive vision for a country that works for everyone I'm asking you to support our campaign with the contribution right now So she's doubling down and once again implying that Bernie Sanders is responsible for the divisiveness in 2016 Not the dnc. Not hillary clinton, but bernie sanders. That's the implication here And believe it or not, she actually doesn't want to have a substantive policy discussion with bernie sanders Because his platform is better than hers in every conceivable way The only thing I agree more with elizabeth warnon is totally getting rid of the filibuster But when it comes to policy issues He's better than her he goes further on every single issue and he's more reliable because he has a multi decade record of fighting for all of these same issues Now elizabeth warn is a very smart person and she knows exactly what she's doing I think she knows that the details of the story are dubious and that this isn't really even an attack But this is a strategy. Look, here's the thing when you are down in the polls Then it's really good for you to attack Your opponent But the thing about attacks is that sometimes they backfire oftentimes if you attack someone you can drive down Their support, but you also simultaneously drive down your support So the best way to attack someone is to respond to their attacks Strategically and statistically that's the best way So she really desperately wants people to think that bernie sanders is the one who instigated all of these attacks He started so now that she's attacking him She doesn't look as bad It's strategy and it tells you that she's not really an ally. She doesn't actually care about the progressive movement She's just in this for herself So, I mean, this is incredibly disappointing to see her doing this but I mean It's getting to a point where iowa is taking place in weeks And she's behind in the polls the Des Moines redditor just found that he's three points ahead of her He's in first place in iowa And she's freaking out and I think rightfully so so strategically it makes sense for her to go after bernie sanders in this way But I just would have expected I guess better from elizabeth warn I would have expected her to not be so disingenuous and her attacks on bernie sanders and understand This is an attack on bernie sanders by elizabeth warn. He didn't start this She did but I want everyone who's watching this who supports bernie sanders to be mindful of the fact That anything we say about bernie sanders Can be used by the establishment as a representation of bernie's campaign Even if we have nothing to do with bernie sanders, they're going to use what you say To attack bernie sanders so watch everything you say and acknowledge that we all represent the movement like it or not And um, yeah, I don't know what else to say. This is incredibly disappointing to see elizabeth warn You know use this manufactured disingenuous story to attack bernie sanders But she wants to win and she doesn't really care if it hurts the aggregate progressive movement I don't think she really cares about being part of it She just wants to be the nominee and she knows that her opponent is in the lead And she has to attack him if she wants a boost So, um, I wouldn't be surprised if she attacked bernie sanders at tomorrow's debate But she doesn't want to talk about policy understand that because bernie sanders will win that discussion 10 times out of 10 because he's just better than her on that So she has to resort to these types of manufactured controversies in order to try to bring him down So rather than targeting, you know, joe biden people to judge. She's going after bernie sanders So, um, this is disgusting And elizabeth warn needs to understand that if she's truly worried about divisiveness Then further dividing the progressive movement Isn't the best way to go about this and i'll leave that there