'There's far too much at stake for progressives who support Sanders and Warren to allow their own personal preferences for any one candidate to jeopardize progressives' chances to win the White House,' Carl Gibson and David Weissman write for CNNOpinion
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As the first primaries and caucuses of 2020 approach, the race for the Democratic nomination is shaping up to be a three-way primary between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. This means the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is going toe-to-toe with the centrist wing of the party, whose policies are less intrusive to entrenched corporate power. The most certain way to ensure the corporate wing wins is for the progressive wing to fracture.
Carl GibsonDavid WeissmanFollowing Tuesday night's debate, tensions between supporters of Sanders and Warren are boiling over. On Monday, reports surfaced of Sanders allegedly telling Warren a woman could not win the presidency, which he denies, and new audio of the terse exchange between Warren and Sanders emerged -- in which Warren accused Sanders of accusing her of lying -- all of which makes such a fracture all the more likely.Unity among progressives now is more important than ever.
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