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The Guardian’s David Smith also just asked Donald Trump at the White House what he thought of Elizabeth Warren dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination yesterday, after a very disappointing performance in the Super Tuesday primaries across 14 states (she did not win any and came third in her home state of Massachusetts).

Boom! Like taking a doctor’s hammer on the knee, those misogynistic Trumpian reflexes shot up.

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Donald Trump just lit into Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden almost in a single breath, in one of his free-wheeling Q & As with gathered media at the White House earlier this morning.

The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief David Smith is on pool duty today in the capital today. He was at the press session in the Diplomatic Room and got in a series of questions probing for the president’s latest thoughts on the Democratic race for the 2020 party nomination. We’ll come on to what he said about Warren in the next post.

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Source: Elections - theguardian.com


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