Sanders, Warren Dont Shake Hands After Contentious Debate

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ignored Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) outstretched hand after the Democratic presidential debate on Jan. 14, instead confronting him.

What, exactly, the pair talked about wasnt clear.

Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir told the Washington Post that “she came to raise a concern, and he said lets talk about that later.”

Billionaire activist and philanthropist Tom Steyer approached shortly after Warren did and appeared surprised by the content of the discussion.

The decision not to shake hands came after Sanders and Warren clashed again over their recollection of a 2018 meeting.

Sanders was questioned whether hed told Warren that a woman cant win the presidency.

“Anybody who knows me knows it is incomprehensible that I wouldnt think that a woman could be president of the United States,” he said, referencing a video circulating this week showing him saying decades ago that a woman should be president.

But Abby Phillip, a CNN moderator, appeared to assume Sanders was lying.

“Youre saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillip asked.

“Senator Warren, what did you think when Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” Phillip asked.

The camera showed Sanders laughing in disbelief while Warren answered: “I disagreed” before calling Sanders her friend.

After the debate, during a CNN panel at the venue in Iowa, former Hillary Clinton communications director Jess McIntosh, a CNN contributor, weighed in on the issue.

“I think what Bernie forgot is that this *isnt* a he said she said story, this is a reported out story that CNN was part of breaking,” she claimed.

“So to have him just flat-out say no wasnt enough for the women watching.”