2020 Presidential Election

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(01-15-2020, 02:56 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Haha, the 30 years thing was actually pretty funny.

Warren said she was the only person on the stage who had beaten a Republican incumbent in the last 30 years.

Then Sanders said he did beat a Republican incumbent in 1990 (which is true).

She kind of made this thinking face and said "so 30 years ago."

Basically, she crafted her statement specifically to exclude Bernie's win in 1990 and was called out on it.

Bernie's only other election win in which he wasn't the incumbent was his 2006 run for Senate, in which he was running in place of a retired Senator, so there was no incumbent. The incumbent was an independent, was previously a Republican but was caucusing with the Democrats at the time of retiring, so he was basically a more centrist version of Bernie (independent that caucuses with the Democrats).

The joke's on Warren though because November 1990 (when Bernie was elected) was 29 years and 2 months ago, so it was within 30 years.

Making her statement false

His campaign was quick to note today that 30 years ago she was a Republican