Sen. Boxer fires back at Sanders aide: ‘He wasn’t there’

by Rebecca Savransky - 05/25/16 12:27 PM ET

Boxer responds to Sanders' campaign manager: "I just tried to diffuse it every way I could" https://t.co/t0oUEQlWaj https://t.co/BPLPeduIMP

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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) shot back at Bernie Sanders campaign manager on Wednesday after he cast doubt on the senator’s claim that she feared for her safety during the chaotic protests at the Nevada Democratic Convention.

“I just tried to defuse it every way I could,” Boxer, a supporter of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, said on CNN on Wednesday.

{mosads}”Let me be clear, I did not defuse the situation. So where are we now? Why are we looking back, I say to Mr. Weaver?” she said.

“We need to be working to win this election to unify, not go back and pick fights with one another, and I’m not picking a fight with him. He wasn’t there.”

Sanders’s campaign manager Jeff Weaver slammed Boxer’s account of the events as “incongruous” on Tuesday night.

“I think if you watched the online video, it seems incongruous that somebody was in fear for their life while they were contemptuously blowing kisses at their opponents,” Weaver said.

Boxer defended her actions during the convention, saying the situation was “extremely intimidating” and “frightening,” with Sanders supporters upset over how the process was being run.

“Frankly they were so close to me, I don’t know what they could have done,” Boxer said.

“Could they have thrown something, could they have rushed the stage. I didn’t know what was going to happen.”

Boxer admitted she blew kisses at the crowd, but said it was after security had escorted her off the stage.

“I was heading to the exit and they were following me with more of these vile comments. I used a sense of humor and I blew them kisses,” she said.

“And if Mr. Weaver doesn’t have a sense of humor, I don’t know.”

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