Warren on the ropes

[RandySF]

Elizabeth Warren convened a conference call Tuesday night after her fourth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary and delivered some straight talk to demoralized staffers.

“I don’t kid myself,” Warren said, according to a source on the call. “I know that when the pundits and naysayers criticize us, I know it gets hard. And I know your jobs get hard, but these are the moments we find out who we are. ... These are the moments when we dig deep.”

The moment is an enormous test not just for the Warren team, but for the candidate herself. After betting big on the first two states and netting no delegates from neighboring New Hampshire, the Massachusetts senator is at a low point in her White House bid — and trying to find some way to come back.

She’s proceeded cautiously. But the hyperdisciplined Warren is inching toward drawing more contrasts with her opponents, after sticking to an “I’m not here to attack other Democrats” approach for most of the campaign.

In her remarks after finishing in single digits in the New Hampshire primary, Warren argued that Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders were contributing to factionalism in the party. She criticized “supporters of some candidates shouting curses about other Democratic candidates,” an apparent reference to some Sanders backers.





https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/warren-strategy-2020-115047

[still_one]

1. Nevada and SC will be a good indicator of viability to both Liz and Joe

[Kaleva]

3. Yes.

[griffi94]

4. Agreed

If she has poor finishes there, she's probly done.

[gollygee]

2. It's too early to count her out

We've only had states with very little diversity.

[virgogal]

6. What difference does diversity make,all of our candidates are white?

[magicarpet]

11. Black, brown, tan primary voters,...

.....especially black women, they take their voting responsibilities very seriously. The non-white vote is pivotable in the selection of the Demo pres candidate.

Iowa and New Hampshire are not racially diverse so their primary vote totals do not accurately measure black, brown, tan voter intent.

With the vast changes in demographics coming and racial equality issues to the forefront we need to be more inclusive to be fair and just and aware of the folks who occupy the space to our immediate and distant proximities. You are your brother's and sister's keepers - conduct your selves accordingly.

[LeftTurn3623]

13. No it's not

I love Warren but she is done and it’s hurting her Politically staying in.

[blm]

21. Care to explain how?

[blm]

5. She should stay focused on CORRUPTION. She's the only one with the lifetime

of knowledge and experience and strength of will to confront Trump’s corruption.

Her campaign needs to stop playing primary politics and show what the general election will look like.

Warren doesn’t want to attack other Dems and she will never be smooth doing it - she EXCELS at attacking corruption - attack Trump’s corruption NOW, or say hello to Dem nominee Michael Bloomberg.

[ibegurpard]

9. We have Senator Warren to thank

For the CFPB. that huge accomplishment is why i e leaned toward her.

[blm]

10. She keyed on Wells Fargo and all the top execs were forced out.

She and Katie Porter intimidate the crap out of Jamie Dimon, too.

[magicarpet]

12. Warren scares the banking, financial, stock brokerage, and pay day lending industries to death.

Those folks are working and toiling to keep Warren's delegate numbers low so she comes nowhere close to winning the Demo nomination for president.

Bad press, innuendos, negative comments in the media will chip away at her possibilities to enter the Oval Office.

[blm]

14. They know she is the ONLY one who completely understands what they do and

How they do it. And that she has the will and the fight in her to expose it and end it.

[Renew Deal]

7. She will eventually realize that the problem isn't factionalism or lack of contrast.

There is nothing she can do about the problem with her campaign.

[gulliver]

8. She's a good person, but she can't be the bridge candidate between Sanders and the center/left.

All of her progressive support went to Sanders and all of her center/left support went to the other candidates. The good news is that she can be in the cabinet. Also, her loss of support while Sanders remains at low support (around 25%) shows that there is no threat of a revolutionary socialist pledged delegate majority. Sanders is also hanging by a thread.

[LeftTurn3623]

15. Are you serious?

Sanders hanging one by a thread? He is easily the favorite to get the nomination

I actually think it’s pretty much over. Mostly because too many candidates can’t read the writing on the wall and hang on too long. Warren & Amy shouldn’t even be in the race any longer and after Nevada and S.C. - Pete should drop out. Past elections getting 9% in a state neighboring your home state you dropped out. It’s a joke to think Warren or Amy has any chance finishing 3 & 4th or 5th in the first 2 states. Polling low in the next states and national.

Because of the. Candidates hanging on past when they should will allowed Bernie to walk right to the nomination.

[Demsrule86]

19. He isn't going to win the nomination...

[comradebillyboy]

16. Elizabeth never quite came to grips with the fact that she would

have to beat Sanders in order to win the nomination. Or she figured that out too late. Instead of her wine cave campaign against Buttigieg she she would have been better off making the case of why she was a better progressive standard bearer than Bernie Sanders.

[RandySF]

17. She also miscalculated

The degree to which Sanders’s trolls would work to undercut her while Bernie made nice.

[blm]

20. Not to mention Joe and Pete camps disingenuously attacking her for 3mths

last fall as they laid off Bernie during that time thinking his health would be obstacle enough.

Warren is a snooty elitist, don’tcha know? She’s the my way or the highway type.......don’tcha know?

[squirecam]

22. This

100%

[Demsrule86]

18. South Carolina for Joe...however, I think Warren,Buttigieg and Klobachar will be out either just

before super Tuesday or on super Tuesday...none of them will do well.

[MoonlitKnight]

23. She is in third place

Based upon delegates so far.

She is persisting.