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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Warren embraces underdog role as she faces 2020 challenges
By STEVE PEOPLES, ELANA SCHOR and HUNTER WOODALL
today
BOSTON (AP) Elizabeth Warren has spent much of the last decade as a leader of the Democratic Partys liberal wing.
But three and a half months into her presidential campaign, the Massachusetts senator is facing tough questions about fundraising and electability, along with lingering skepticism about her past claim to Native American identity. The longtime liberal superstar is embracing an uncomfortable role in the crowded 2020 contest: the underdog.
This is the race I want to run, Warren insisted in an interview with The Associated Press.
With the 69-year-old Democrat in the middle of the pack in early polling, her Boston-based senior advisers are implementing an aggressive if risky strategy that calls on Warren to forgo traditional high-dollar fundraising events and devote the saved time to interactions with rank-and-file voters. Advisers say shell also focus on seizing opportunities to stake bold new policy positions in real time, as she did recently by calling for the breakup of big technology companies like Amazon, which allow her to shape the debate and showcase her policy bona fides.
Her success or failure will help determine the direction of the Democratic Party in 2020 and, more specifically, whether Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders can maintain his early place at the head of the presidential primary pack. While Warren has sometimes sought to distinguish herself from Sanders, describing herself as a capitalist while Sanders runs as a democratic socialist, the New England senators appeal to the same progressive, populist wing of their party that is an increasingly dominant force in the age of President Donald Trump.
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Warren embraces underdog role as she faces 2020 challenges (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2019
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comradebillyboy
(10,149 posts)1. After a strong opening her campaign just isn't getting
much traction any more.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
samplegirl
(11,479 posts)2. I love her
I think shes more than capable! Shes done her share of hard work! A strong voice for our party!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden