Bill O'Reilly here Friday, January 17, 2020.

You are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Here's what's happening today in America.

The far left duel between Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders got intense this week.

After CNN published a story using anonymous sources that said Bernie Sanders does not believe

a woman can beat Donald Trump in 2020 and told that to Elizabeth Warren.

Sanders denied the allegation in the debate, but this kind of muck-raking made national

headlines, mostly because of how benign the 2020 Democratic race has been so far, unlike

the 2016 Republican debates.

The USA has a long history of bitter political rivalries going back to the early days of

the Republic.

Here are a few as brutal as the election cycle will be come next November.

It won't come close to the 1824 presidential election between Andrew Jackson and John

Quincy Adams, which was ultimately decided by Congress not the voters.

Jackson claimed Adams used the house to steal the election.

Quincy himself dished it out, calling Jackson a quote barbarian who cannot write a sentence

of grammar and can barely spell his own name.

Later on, Teddy Roosevelt really despised President Woodrow Wilson and vice versa.

Teddy believing Wilson was a coward that all centered around World War I.

More recently, Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, Nixon narrowly lost to JFK in 1960, despite

his impressive credentials, Richard Nixon blamed the loss on JFK's good looks and privileged

upbringing.

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