Vox: The Case for Elizabeth Warren

[RandySF]

The case for Warren over her competitors is threefold. She understands America’s problems better than anyone else in the field, in part because it’s her research and analysis that now forms the base for much of the policy debate. She understands how to focus and wield the powers of the regulatory state better than anyone else, because she’s actually done it, and because it’s core to her political project. And she is, far and away, the candidate with the clearest plan for making ambitious governance possible again.

Warren is the only Democrat running for president who has built, or directly managed, a federal agency. That gives her a form of experience that is unique in the Democratic field but central to the work of the president. As my colleague Emily Stewart wrote in her excellent retrospective on Warren’s work setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “the real action in any administration is executive in nature: knowing what regulatory buttons to push, which enforcers can really go for blood, who to put where, and how to manage them.” And Warren does.

Campaigning in the age of television frames the presidency as a communications job, which, sometimes, it is. But those powers are overstated: Presidents are rarely able to dramatically change public opinion, and their interventions are as likely to hurt legislative efforts as help. By contrast, campaigns understate both the power and the difficulty of leading the world’s most powerful and consequential bureaucracy, and the next president will face a particularly hard version of that job, as Donald Trump has driven out a tremendous amount of civil service talent and demoralized many of those who remain. Warren has proven herself the candidate with the right skills and vision to rebuild.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/15/21054083/elizabeth-warren-2020-democratic-primary?fbclid=IwAR31FM4CdfpvthEgyr29LZEIVspH-Re1L9aqaZC_Wbf0_448kab6UUtZnOw

[ritapria]

1. The Case against Elizabeth Warren

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From the NEW YORK TIMES :"Sanders and Warren Meet: They are both Probably Running" .:.".But neither Ms Warren or Mr. Sanders sought support from the other or tried to dissuade the other from running, said the officials familiar with the meeting..." Article dated DECEMBER 13, 2018 ... …………..From Slate, March 11, 2018 : " Elizabeth Warren says She is not running for President in 2020"...…... ...From Real Clear Politics March 7, 2018 : " Warren on Democratic Party Donations "I am not Running for President..I am Running for Senate " …. Elizabeth's own campaign backing off Allegations that Sanders is a Sexist ... …... From Buzzfeed News : " Elizabeth Warren 's Campaign is telling Key Supporters to De- Escalate the Fight with Bernie Sanders " …". At one point , at a lengthy DM with a Twitter Group on Tuesday morning , the Warren staffers description of the controversy HEWED CLOSER TO SANDERS VERSION THAN WARRENS . …" …..

[BeyondGeography]

2. Look at the silly hijack attempt

What did you think of the article?

[blm]

3. That is all you gleaned from the article? Or did you close yourself

off from factual information in order to remain true to your personal bias against her?

BTW, in 2018 Warren was running for the senate. At the end of 2018 she met with Sanders to tell him she wanted to run for President.

Why is that a case against Warren?

How about this: on Saturday morning Sanders canvassers are handed a script to recite.

Politico reporter very friendly to the Sanders campaign gets hold of a copy and publishes a report on it.

Sanders campaign denies it handed out the scripts and points their supporters to a story that the script appeared anonymously at a Bernie board prompting widespread outrage of a conspiracy against Sanders that implied the script was planted to make Sanders camp look bad, probably by Warren herself.

For two days the ProBernie social media attacks and smears Warren in a targeted campaign about the origins of this script.

Monday the Sanders campaign admits the script was handed to volunteers by the campaign. They do not apologize for misdirecting their supporters to a false cover story or for lying about the script’s origins for 2 days.

Sanders supporters ignore that they were lied to by Sanders campaign and continue to attack Warren.

[moriah]

5. Okay then, I see your badly formatted headline list, and raise you:

January 11 -- "Bernie Campaign Slams Warren as Candidate of the Elite"

Sanders’ campaign has begun stealthily attacking Warren as a candidate of the upper crust who could not expand the Democratic base in a general election, according to talking points his campaign is using to sway voters and obtained by POLITICO.

The script instructs Sanders volunteers to tell voters leaning toward the Massachusetts senator that the “people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what” and that “she's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party.”

“I like Elizabeth Warren (optional).” the script begins. “In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.” It then pivots to the criticisms of Warren.

January 13 -- "Bernie Sanders Denies Sending Campaign to 'Trash' 2020 Rival"

Bernie Sanders has denied sending campaign volunteers to "trash" his 2020 Democratic primary rival Elizabeth Warren, saying the feud was a "bit of a media blowup," it has been reported.

The Vermont senator told reporters after an Iowa event over the weekend that both he and Warren had campaign teams with "hundreds of employees" who sometimes "say things that they shouldn't," according to The New York Times.

Sanders also said that Warren is a "very good friend" of his, while noting that the pair have "worked together in the Senate for years" prior to the 2020 primary race.

Sanders' attempt to calm tensions between the two campaigns comes after Politico obtained a purported script sent to his volunteers with talking points for organizers looking to sway party voters away from Warren.

January 14 -- "Sanders Camp Admits anti-Warren Script was Deployed in Multiple Early States"

The controversial talking points attacking Elizabeth Warren that Bernie Sanders' campaign deployed were given to teams in at least two early voting states on Friday, three Sanders campaign officials confirmed.

Volunteers and staffers used the script on Saturday while canvassing for votes, meaning the talking points were more official than what Sanders previously suggested after POLITICO reported on the language.

Thee campaign pulled back the script — which described Warren's appeal as limited to the highly educated and financially well off — later on Saturday after the story published. Sanders initially appeared to blame the controversy on rogue employees.

[George II]

6. No links, just selected quotes from all those sources? Not biting.

[ehrnst]

7. Look....over there!!!!

The article was that unnerving, was it?

[blm]

4. Great article. Hope more fair minded people take time to read it.

[ehrnst]

8. K&R.

[blm]

9. Such a great article because it reports the TRUTH and the horseshit lies

against her are proven false. Like many in a certain camp who insist that Warren copied their guy. Uh...politicians and academics based their views on the research and written works of people like ......Elizabeth Warren.

It’s not Warren doing the borrowing.

[ehrnst]

10. Indeed. (nt)