The broad consensus among political reporters & operatives seems to be that Warren's camp did not in fact intentionally leak details of the meeting, but that it was more likely somebody else either with an axe to grind or who'd benefit from the resulting fracas. /1
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Warren could've blunted the story and said her memory is what it is but she takes her friend at his word that he didn't mean it that way. Sanders could've de-escalated by saying he was sorry if he gave off the wrong impression and only meant that Trump will exploit sexism. But
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my guess is that we will eventually find out where it came from, and it will make more sense than Warren doing it intentionally.
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If true, none of this would absolve Warren of escalating it unnecessarily, or refusing to shake Sanders' outstretched hand in public, which had the predictable effect of lengthening this.
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A key fact that people are overlooking is that in journalism circles this rumor had been kicking around for some time. So it's extremely unlikely it just landed in
@mj_lee's lap all packaged up. More likely is she was working it a long time and able to nail it down bc...53 replies 43 retweets 507 likesShow this thread -
Bernie's surge motivated people who had knowledge of it to finally confirm it. But assuming it was Warren's team is just an assumption.
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I'm also not remotely convinced that
@ErinBurnett is claiming that she knows MJ's sources. She seemed to be making her own assessment, nothing more.29 replies 17 retweets 326 likesShow this thread -
And fwiw a CNN source who would know tells me Erin didn’t know MJs sources and wouldn’t have said anything about it if she did
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Timing of this all, along with
@mj_lee's emphatic "4 sources" makes this hard to fathom. After@ewarren publicly admonishes@BernieSanders for sending volunteers out to "trash" her, she sends fundraising email out and creates a news cycle. Less than 24 hours into that cycle..9 replies 7 retweets 56 likes -
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@cnn's dedicated Warren reporter traveling on campaign trail w/ Warren and her advisers "breaks" this with 4 sources. Let's say you're right--this is something she was working on for awhile--it's more likely it was something campaign gave her off the record and finally gave her2 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
the greenlight to go with it after deciding this was their window to go scorched earth on @BernieSanders since the media was already hitting Bernie for the "script" trashing Bernie. It also doesn't scan that it wasn't leaked by Warren's campaign on face value...if it wasn't
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Replying to @JordanChariton @ryangrim and
and this wasn't a conversation she wanted out in the public, one would think she wouldn't wait half a day to comment, nor would she have basically called Sanders a liar in her initial comment. I think this is an extremely generous interpretation by you
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Think I'm about done bending over backwards so Ryan can feel good about a bad decision he made.
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