What Elizabeth Warren Is Quietly Telling Democratic Insiders (New York Times)

[Skya Rhen]

As Ms. Warren steadily rises in the polls she is working diligently to protect her left flank, lining up with progressives on nearly every issue and trying to defuse potential attacks from supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “I’m with Bernie,” she responds when asked about what is perhaps the most contentious issue of the primary race: “Medicare for all.”

Yet publicly, and even more in private, she is signaling to party leaders that, far from wanting to stage a “political revolution” in the fashion of Mr. Sanders, she wants to revive the beleaguered Democratic National Committee and help recapture the Senate while retaining the House in 2020.

In phone calls, text messages and small gatherings before her rallies, as well as in one-on-one meetings over hot tea at her Washington condominium, Ms. Warren is simultaneously courting and assuring Democratic town leaders, statewide officials and the chiefs of the country’s largest unions.

The outreach is not just an effort to avoid the confrontational approach Mr. Sanders took in 2016, when he inveighed against party insiders and the committee itself, which he correctly believed was favoring Hillary Clinton. Ms. Warren is also trying to allay concerns among Democrats that, as a progressive candidate proposing sweeping change, she may not have enough mainstream appeal to compete with President Trump in the general election.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-democrats.html

[saidsimplesimon]

1. "Daming with Faint praise"?

[uberblonde]

2. That's what the Times specializes in...

They're already laying the groundwork.

[brooklynite]

9. Please point to some actual bias in the article.

[Cha]

4. I'd like her more if she

weren't "with Bernie".

[Little Star]

6. +1

[comradebillyboy]

5. A very smart move by Warren. Rightly or wrongly

Warren is often identified as a Sanders ally. It's very important for her to establish herself as a loyal Democrat and team player to set herself apart from Sanders. She really needs to put some distance between herself and Sanders in my opinion.

[Hortensis]

7. As we already knew. Warren works from inside, using the enormous power

already established by the people to serve them to serve them. As a sensible and competent adult, she's proven herself able and willing to work with others, including the business leaders who fear her, to get things done. Implicit to our representative democracy. Democrats don't elect people to act out hostilities and indulge personality freaks.

[LAS14]

8. I'm glad to hear this. Thanks for posting. nt