As I have said before, Elizabeth Warren is my conditional favorite for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, with Bernie Sanders in 2nd place. Liz is well known to progressive activists, but for the most part, the general electorate have never heard of her, because they are so damn ignorant, politically. I’m pleased to see that she has been making such a good impression that she is rising, and not just in the polls.
There was a time not so long ago when leading Democrats warned that Elizabeth Warren’s “fantasy-based blue-state populism” risked leading the party to ruin.
But in a revealing tell of how far her campaign has come since its early February launch, some unlikely voices in the center of the party are growing more comfortable with the idea of Warren as the nominee.
It’s a sign of how the ideological lanes of the 2020 primary have blurred and overlapped and of the steady progress Warren is making as a candidate. But it’s also a statement on Bernie Sanders, Warren’s top rival for progressive votes. Sanders continues to face significant resistance from within the party — and nowhere more so than among the moderates and establishment players who blanch at his talk of democratic socialism.
Warren, on the other hand, is gaining traction among those who once rejected her muscular vision of liberalism. She’s drawn notice for her wide-ranging “I have a plan for that” policy playbook, which has just enough growth-and-opportunity, center-left measures to earn her a serious look from former detractors. The Massachusetts senator may be out of sync with party centrists, but she’s drawn at least one sharp line with Sanders that is resonating with prominent moderate voices as she surges into the top tier in national and early state polls.
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Here’s her presentation at the Poor People’s Campaign.
Is it any wonder that she’s on the rise?
Liz is just as much a democratic socialist as Bernie is. She just avoids the label, because Republicans have spread so much bogus propaganda about it.
A true progressive that can also attract center-left moderates has to be a plus for thje Democratic Party and the nation.
RESIST!!
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I sure do like her talks, so down to earth. She speaks well for all of us.
Thanks, Tom, passing this on too.
My only reservations about her in the past were that (1) ahe said she was not interested in running (and I’m sure it was true when she said it), and (2) that Republicans and even other Democrats would eat her alive. Both of those concerns being out of the way (well, one out of the way and the other fast getting there), I am now ready to wade into polls and name her my #1 choice. Next task: To figure out who is my #2 choice. But that’s a great problem to have. It means we have an exceptional bench.
RESIST AND PERSIST!p>
As I said weeks ago, my dream team in the Oval Office would be Warren/Buttigieg – but I think that’s too much to hope for.
I could even live w/ a Biden/Harris duo.
Hell – I’d be happy with a Jell-O Mold/Refrigerator Mold ticket! ANYONE BUT TRUMP!
TC feels, and I certainly see his point, that we will fare better if our presidential candidate will fare better if the chosen VP candidate is not from a coast, by which he means if that candidate is from an area whose people consider it to be dismissed as “flyover country.” So I have done the checking, and here are those candidates and their states. I considered both Alaska and Hawaii to be coastal (or at least not flyover.) Florida is so weird I thought it might not be held against us, but the only Floridian, Wayne Messam, didn’t make the debate cut. So here are the candidates not from coastal states, and the states they are from.
Bennet, CO
Bullock, MT
Buttigieg, IN
Castro, TX
Hickenlooper, CO
Klobuchar, MN
O’Rourke, TX
Ryan, OH
Bennet and Klobuchar are in the Senate; the others are not. I kind of like Bennet as my Senator and wish he’d stay there, but I can also see him as VP. My favorite would be Buttigieg, on platform and character. The other one who is most widely known is O’Rourke. I hope to God no one gets the bright idea that Hickenlooper would be good in that spot. O’Rourke has charisma but I SO wish he would defeat Cornyn. What does anyone else think? Is there someone from middle America who is not a Presidential candidate who would be good as VP? Sherrod Brown has announced his intention to stay in the Senate where he feels he can do the most good. I can’t think of anyone else, but that may just be my poor memory. Bottom line, at this point I do not see Warren/Buttigieg as out of the question.
My pics from your list are Bennet, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and O’Rourke.
Others who MIGHT be possible VP picks:
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)
Mitch Landrieu – former Mayor of New Orleans & Lt. Gov. of LA (Yeah, I know LA is on a “coast” – but not an OCEAN coast)
Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (VA)
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Former Gov. Deval Patrick (MA)
I too am a fan of Elizabeth.
I’m liking Madame Warren more each day. She just might be the woman who breaks the ultimate glass ceiling! What with Biden shooting himself in the feet – before putting them both in his mouth – I would not be the least bit surprised to see her as the new Dem frontrunner.
Thanks, Hugs, and Amen to all.
I know I’m late to this, but Warren/Buttigieg sounds good to me!