Former Vice President Joe Biden has falsely accused Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign of doctoring a video of him talking about Social Security cuts, but news outlets and partisans have unearthed numerous recordings that may capsize the pronounced “Democratic front runner’s” campaign.

Biden told a crowd at Simpson College in Iowa that the Sanders campaign had “doctored the piece and it’s acknowledged that it’s a fake” but the video he is talking about is a clip of Biden’s 2018 remarks to the Brookings Institution is played that Politico confirms was not doctored.

“Joe Biden should be honest with voters and stop trying to doctor his own public record of consistently and repeatedly trying to cut Social Security,” said Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir, who reiterated the former vice president’s long-standing record of considering cuts to Social Security.

“The facts are very clear: Biden not only pushed to cut Social Security — he is on tape proudly bragging about it on multiple occasions,” said Shakir.

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1215660942530236416

Sanders’ speechwriter David Sirota shared a series of video clips on Twitter, which depict Biden in the Senate talking enthusiastically about freezing federal spending on programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

“When I argued if we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid…I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time” said Biden, in one video.

Another clip shows Biden boasting that he sought to “freeze all government spending, including Social Security.”

Meanwhile, Sanders has tapped down accusations from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed that Sanders told her a woman could not win the presidency during a private conversation they had in December 2018.

Sanders vehemently denied the claim, asserting he said no such thing.

The two without real fireworks. After the matter was discussed during Tuesday’s Iowa debate, Warren approached Sanders with their TV microphones still turned on, refused to shake his hand and said, “I think you called me a liar on national TV.”

“In my view a woman could be elected president of the United States.” — Bernie Sanders, 1988 pic.twitter.com/WJd847DdmA — Meagan Day (@meaganmday) January 13, 2020

In a 1988 video, Sanders declared that a woman can be elected president, and the Vermont lawmaker vigorously campaigned for Hillary Clinton in 2016, after she overcame his challenge for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“The real issue is not whether you’re black or white, whether you’re a woman or a man. In my view, a woman could be elected president of the United States,” said Sanders, at the time a high-profile supporter of Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential bid. “The real issue is whose side are you on? Are you on the side of workers and poor people, or are you on the side of big money and the corporations?”

Instead of causing women to question Sanders, the attack makes Warren look desperate as her poll numbers dry up in the final weeks before voting starts in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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