When Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren walked onto the debate stage earlier this week,

it felt like the audience was holding its breath for this moment.

Let's not turn to an issue that's come up in the last 48 hours, Senator Sanders.

CNN reported yesterday that and Senator Sanders, Senator Warren

confirmed in a statement that in 2018, you told her that you did not believe that a woman

could win the election. Why did you say that? Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't say it.

This was less of a real debate question and more of a chance for the two frontrunners to tell on each other.

Elizabeth Warren got this shocked look on her face as Bernie Sanders frantically scrambled away from this allegation of sexism.

Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here.

You're saying that you never told Senator Warren

that a woman could not win the election. That is correct. Senator Warren, what did you think

when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election? I disagreed. This exchange

came after a week of slowly building tension.

First, the news that the Sanders campaign was telling its volunteers to subtly insult Warren,

passing out scripts that claim she's an elite who won't excite new voters.

Then this CNN story popped up about a dinner between the two candidates back in 2018.

That's where Sanders said whatever he said about women in the presidency.

The response to what has happened has been so dramatic to me.

Derricka Pernel talks politics over at The Guardian.

She spent days watching this friction buildup between the Sanders and Warren camps.

For people who I think have, you know, Bernie is their number one that lists, as their number

two, and then Liz as their number one, Bernie, as their number two. I am now seeing conversations that's calling them liars, calling them sexes. There was like

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