Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stepped up his pitch to women in early-voting New Hampshire on the heels of a squabble over sexism in politics with fellow progressive and 2020 rival Elizabeth Warren.
The Vermont senator delivered a brief speech Saturday at the Seacoast Women�s March in Portsmouth, saying that�we are in this together.�
�Men, if you think abortion rights, if you think equal pay for equal work is just a women�s issue, you are dead wrong,� Sanders said. �It is a human issue and the men have got to stand with the women.�
Sanders did not stay to march, heading instead to the next campaign stop. His remarks at the event came a day after his campaign released two television ads in New Hampshire. The state�s primary is set for Feb. 11, eight days after the Iowa caucuses lead off the nominating contests.
One of those ads, �Our Side,� says that, under President Donald Trump, �women�s rights are under attack.�
�Bernie Sanders is on our side and always has been,� a female narrator says over images of Sanders campaigning with and posing for pictures alongside large groups of supporters, most of them women. �Fighting to protect a woman�s right to choose, to fully fund Planned Parenthood, make child care affordable and guarantee paid family leave and equal pay.�
In Portsmouth, Sanders said, �What the Women�s March, and what we are all about, is saying that it is the women of this country who have the right to control their bodies, not politicians.�
Sanders didn�t mention Warren or the flare up-with his longtime friend, a Massachusetts senator who overlaps with him on many policy initiatives that seek to overhaul the nation�s political and economic system. Warren said this past week that, during a private meeting between the two in 2018, Sanders disagreed that a woman could win the presidency � a charge he�s forcefully denied.
That has raised deeper questions about societal misogyny that female candidates have to overcome. The senators then clashed about the �he said, she said� feud during a debate last week. Warren refused to shake Sanders� hand afterward as both of them called the other �a liar.�
They were in the Senate for the start of Trump�s impeachment trial on Thursday and said they�d not subsequently spoken about the incident. Warren, campaigning in Iowa on Friday, declared that � I don�t have anything else to say on this.�
A second Sanders ad airing in New Hampshire, �Strive,� strikes a less gender-specific message, evoking John F. Kennedy and rejecting �half measures� to real political change.
Later Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, Warren planned to focus on abortion rights during a �fireside chat� at a private home with Planned Parenthood activists.
(AP)
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poor Bernie, a senile old fool, a bundist socialist from a lost generation. He should have retired before he disgraced himself. he has plenty of money to enjoy with his non Jewish wife……