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| | | | | | | | My colleague Monica Torres broke down one of the more astonishing sexist moments of the week:
During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden gave himself some credit for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s signature achievement: proposing a new federal agency called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and working to get it passed into law.
Debate moderator Anderson Cooper had asked if Warren’s vision of “big structural change” would attract the voters necessary to beat President Donald Trump next year. In response, the Massachusetts lawmaker brought up her successful fight to shepherd the CFPB from her own idea to reality following the 2008 financial crisis.
The conversation about the CFPB could have ended there, but Biden jumped in to dubiously claim that it was his achievement, too, modeling several examples of how not to talk about your female colleague’s accomplishments in one single sexist exchange. Here are three things Biden did that will be all too familiar to a lot of women:
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