Warren-Sanders Peace Pact Faces Test at Tonight’s Crucial Debate
- Smaller stage of six candidates will expose Democratic rifts
- Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg top Iowa polls; Warren is fourth
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The longstanding nonaggression pact between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will be under strain at the seventh Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night after recent reports that Sanders has questioned whether a woman could get elected president.
With a winnowed slate of six candidates on stage that also includes Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer and Amy Klobuchar, the jostling between Sanders and Warren is just one of the possible match-ups likely to highlight the Des Moines Register/CNN debate in Des Moines beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.