Warren Appears to Brush off Sanders’ Attempt for Post-Debate Handshake

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) appeared to rebuff Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during an end of debate exchange on Tuesday night.

The moment came after days of rising tension between the longtime friends who are now progressive rivals in the Democratic primary. It appeared that Sanders approached Warren for a handshake, which she did not accept, and then after a brief exchange, Sanders turned away and left the conversation.

That exchange was the latest in a series of stories that have left people wondering about how the two candidates are getting along.

Over the weekend, Politico reported that Sanders volunteers were framing Warren as a candidate for the elite in door-to-door campaigning by telling voters “people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what.” Then it ran a story claiming that “Sanders surges as progressives flock to him over Warren.”

On Monday, CNN dropped an anonymously sourced report, during a private conversation in 2018, where Sanders had apparently told Warren a woman couldn’t win the election. Sanders denied the report, calling it “ludicrous.”

But Warren’s team let it run without commenting for the entire day. And then, later that night, Warren released a statement