[ April 24, 2024 ]
Back to her teepee in her home state – which didn’t even vote for her.
Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race
Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy.
By Astead W. Herndon and Shane Goldmacher, NY Times, March 5, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementThough her support had eroded by Super Tuesday, in her final weeks as a candidate she effectively drove the centrist billionaire, former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, out of the race with debate performances that flashed her evident skills and political potential.
She entered the race railing against the corrosive power of big money, and one long-term consequence of her campaign is that Ms. Warren demonstrated that someone other than Senator Bernie Sanders, and his intensely loyal small-dollar donors, could fund a credible presidential campaign without holding fund-raisers.
Her potential endorsement is highly sought after in the race and both Mr. Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. have spoken with Ms. Warren since Super Tuesday, when the end of her campaign appeared imminent.
Ms. Warren’s political demise was a death by a thousand cuts, not a dramatic implosion but a steady decline. Last October, according to most national polls, Ms. Warren was the national pacesetter in the Democratic field. By December, she had fallen to the edge of the top tier, wounded by a presidential debate in November where her opponents relentlessly attacked her.
She invested heavily in the early states, with a ground game that was the envy of her rivals. But it did not pay off: In the first four early voting states, Ms. Warren slid from third place in Iowa to fourth in New Hampshire and Nevada to fifth in South Carolina. By Super Tuesday, her campaign was effectively over — with the final blow of a third-place finish in the primary of her home state, Massachusetts.
The news clarifies that a Democratic field that began with a record number of female candidates has now become a contest between Mr. Biden, 77, and Mr. Sanders, 78.
Ms. Warren’s exit also clears the party’s left lane for Mr. Sanders, who had a more muted showing on Super Tuesday than polls had predicted. The Sanders campaign will now aim to attract enough of Ms. Warren’s ideologically progressive supporters to put him over the top in a closely contested primary.
Ms. Warren arrived on the political scene in the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse and shot to superstardom with her indictments of Wall Street and unfettered capitalism.In 2016, some progressive organizations mounted “Run Warren Run” campaigns and her eventual presidential rival, Mr. Sanders, floated her name as a possible challenger to Hillary Clinton, but Ms. Warren resisted the urge to run then.
Four years later, when Ms. Warren did decide to pursue the Democratic nomination, she entered a changed political terrain — a challenging landscape whose obstacles she was never able to overcome. Mr. Sanders’s political stock had soared after he ran against Mrs. Clinton in 2016, giving him an immediate advantage in fund-raising and name recognition that complicated Ms. Warren’s electoral path.
And Donald J. Trump was not just a reality TV star and one of many potential Republican rivals in 2020. He was the president, and his election seemed to shock the Democratic base into an electability-induced stupor. Voters constantly second-guessed their electoral choices as they tried to game out which candidate would be best equipped to beat him.
Mr. Biden, in particular, has capitalized on this anxiety to drive voters to his candidacy.
Ms. Warren’s allies and supporters said the question of electability — who would be the surest bet to defeat the president — disproportionately hurt all the women who ran for president this cycle. Voters, they argue, were swayed by a media narrative that a woman would have a more difficult time defeating Mr. Trump, informed by Mrs. Clinton’s unexpected loss in 2016.
At recent events, Ms. Warren had taken to speaking to voters directly about their electability fears, imploring them to tune out pundits who were writing her off and vote their own conscience.
“Here’s my advice: Cast a vote that will make you proud,” Ms. Warren told voters on Super Tuesday, speaking in Detroit. “Cast a vote from your heart. Vote for the person you think will make the best president of the United States.”
Though her allies stress structural barriers, Ms. Warren’s shortcomings as a candidate had a great deal to do with her operation. At times, Ms. Warren’s campaign did not reflect the urgency of a candidacy trying to make history, not only as the first female president, but also through a program of systemic upheaval that would include government-run health care, free public college, student debt cancellation, breaking up big tech companies, universal child care, and significant tax increases on the wealthiest individuals and corporations.
During debates ahead of the votes in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states where Ms. Warren had invested many of her presidential hopes, she took a back seat to other candidates like Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. Her campaign chose not to invest heavily in television advertising, and was dominated on the airwaves in early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire. Its bet on organizing staff failed to change the picture.
She had also embraced a vague message declaring her the “unity candidate,” dropping the policy-focused message that had seemed to resonate with voters early on and pitching herself as the electoral compromise between the left-wing dominated by Mr. Sanders and the moderate wing led by former Mr. Biden.
It did not work.
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30 Comments
4 years ago
give credit to trump, the master politician of these times with his deadly grade school nicknames that the deplorables just love. his “pochahantas” label finished her long ago. wait till he gets serious about destroying biden.
4 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
You can’t beat Trump on branding and marketing.
He is a natural and has guts.
4 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
… but it was too soon …
… tooooo sssuunn … as the President would say.
😉
4 years ago
Liz Labor Lost – Warren Drops Out
Hasn’t endorsed anyone yet, may be angling for VP spot
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
She also has to keep pretending that she really had a shot and needs to soothe her over grown ego. She’ll come around. It won’t take long for her to accept a bribe to be a cheerleader for Biden. These people have no honor or dignity. Money and power rule them.
4 years ago
NEXT UP: Bernie Sanders, but ONLY when the Democrat Party GIVES HIM HIS 4TH MILLION DOLLAR HOME IN SOME WARM STATE CLOSE TO CUBA.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
They are cooking up something for him.
Already Bernie is caving…. It’s time for Bernie to get ready to exit….He sees it’s rigged again……
Bernie Sanders:
I’ll Drop Out if Biden Has Most Delegates at Convention (and support Biden)
JOSHUA CAPLAN5 Mar 2020
Even Iran gets it!
Iranian State Media: Joe Biden Is
‘Feeble-Minded’ and ‘Incoherent’
JOHN HAYWARD5 Mar 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/05/iranian-state-media-joe-biden-feeble-minded-incoherent/
4 years ago
Fauxcahontas spoke with forked tongue. Voters take scalp.
4 years ago
What stands out to me is the horrible/failings of the Democratic party and its leadership. What is now left to the voters from that Party is a confirmed socialist/communist and one who has all the signs of dementia. How sad! The position that constitutes POTUS requires a person of sound mind, fortitude, resolve and the ability to rationally make decisions expeditiously. Sanders wants to change everything that is the reason for this country’s success, including tolerance and fair treatment, by proposing to adopt measures that history has proven does not work, as I continue to believe that the human species is built to be industrious, competitive, pursuing excellence to success, all of which is the anti-thesis’s of socialism. Biden has shown objective signs of dementia, and he has likely already used his political position to feed his greed. It is mortifying that the Party enabled these men to be their representatives and further confirms that the Party is in a down fall. I recognize that some issues should be given bi-partisan debate, but I cannot see either of these men as capable of running our great nation.
4 years ago
Lizzy is a tribute to the famous quote “if you want a green turn on a green light”. She promised virtually everything and did so with contradictions galore. In the end, she was nuttier than the Bern.
4 years ago
Simply another Democratic misfit. She skipped AIPAC, not smart. Trump would have had a field day with her as well. On top of all of that she is just plain hard to like.
4 years ago
Reply to
Lee
And this is what our Institutions of higher learning putting out no wonder the kids in these schools are so screwed up for something like this as an example Pitiful !
4 years ago
When you can’t even win your own LIBERAL home state and YOU ARE A LIBERAL, it does not bode well. Thanks for making Doomberg look like the lying fool he is.
You and Doomberg should have lunch sometime. You do have some things in common. Never mind. Bloomberg considers himself head and shoulders above you. That won’t happen.
4 years ago
I wonder, does she rip the tab off with her teeth too believing this is proper beer etiquette for her base?
4 years ago
Warren is a shameless, scandalous, a psychotic wench, whose professing her faux-Native American heritage was a complete falsification but somehow dodged ridicule from her Party and those of her far-Leftist tribe. One asks, how did this woman get this far in a political career of unmitigated mediocrity, ineptness, and deceit? The single answer is, she is unconscionable, amoral, and an unabashed liar, all of which are a prerequisite in one’s acceptance into the faux-Democratic Party.
If a Republican were of her unprincipled, a bold-faced-liar, she or he would be crucified by the Democrats and especially the far-Left mainstream media.
4 years ago
4 years ago
Good bye “Chief Stinky Beaver”, you lying POS.
4 years ago
Fauxcahontas had only a 1/1024th chance of being nominated. By the way,
good riddance as your pathetic life has been one big lie.
4 years ago
The scariest thought is that she may think her chances are better in 2024, incumbency being the toughest obstacle to overcome and the race will be wide open.
4 years ago
“Here’s my advice: Cast a vote that will make you proud,” Ms. Warren
told voters on Super Tuesday, speaking in Detroit. “Cast a vote from
your heart. Vote for the person you think will make the best president
of the United States.”
As a proud Massachusetts citizen and voter, I cast my vote from my heart.
And I proudly and heartily voted for Donald J Trump.
4 years ago
And another one bites the dust…
4 years ago
She used smoke signals to notify everyone
4 years ago
Ah, the famous Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and friend Tonto (Jay Silverheels) with image replaced by Lil’ White Dove…
4 years ago
She was in to discredit Sanders and now she’ll be paid back if Biden wins.
4 years ago
Sucka-gawea.
