BOSTON – Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator whose great progressive anti-corruption and anti-corruption policy made her at one point the leader of the presidential race, ends her campaign.
Warren held a call with his staff this morning, said a source, and announced the suspension of his campaign. Warren has scheduled 12:30 p.m. meeting with the media.
Warren’s departure from the Democratic primary comes after a disastrous Super Tuesday where she did not finish above third in any state, strengthening her streak of 19 games she lost. She even lost her home country, finishing third far in Massachusetts.
Warren campaigned on a mantra of “big structural change” to fight political corruption and money in politics, while championing a multitude of liberal causes such as Medicare for All, the withdrawal of student debt and the breakdown of big technologies like Facebook. Now is not the time to “play around the edges,” she said repeatedly on the campaign trail.
But 70-year-old second-tier senator, who ran national polls last November, faced a serious setback with a stormy rollout of a plan to pay for her $ 20.5 trillion health care review . This undermined one of her strengths: the fact that she is in charge, well prepared and an expert in politics. “I have a plan for this,” she said often in her speeches.
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It never rebounded, finishing third in Iowa caucuses before a dark fourth place in neighboring New Hampshire, and the same for Nevada and South Carolina.
His exit comes as the primary is now a two-way race between new leader Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders in the wake of the former Vice President’s dominant Super Tuesday, where he amalgamated support between the establishment of the party, moderates and African American voters.
A Biden campaign manager confirms that Biden spoke to Warren over the phone yesterday. The official declined to comment on Warren’s political plans, including an approval.
Sanders said he spoke to Warren on Wednesday, saying, “We spoke on the phone a few hours ago and what Senator Warren told me is that she is evaluating her campaign. made no decision at this point. “
Warren, a former Harvard law professor who ran the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Obama, has been excluded from competitors in the Democratic electorate.
Its unique advantage among Democrats graduated from the university has eroded, some in this camp having chosen the bipartisan message and focused on the unity of Senator Amy Klobuchar and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg on the ground of Warren for lead the “struggle” to bring about change.
At the same time, Warren lost the extreme left of the party, in particular the young progressives from 18 to 29 years, by an overwhelming majority of Sanders. They are the voters most likely to gravitate to Warren’s populist economic message, but to Sanders, they have chosen a democratic socialist discourse about the same. Throughout the campaign, Warren struggled to attract the support of African-Americans and other minority voters.
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He left Warren without a reliable base and among a sea of suitors. The assault on campaign spending by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has pushed Warren further.
Bloomberg, Buttigieg and Klobuchar each endorsed Biden after leaving the race.
Warren’s first election was in 2012 when he challenged and overthrew Senator Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, who occupied Ted Kennedy’s former seat in the Senate after his death three years earlier.
Warren entered the double-digit race against Brown in the polls, but ended up winning 54% -46% in the Democratic state. She was re-elected for a second term in 2016, easily defeating Geoff Diehl, a representative of the Republican state.
Warren was encouraged by many progressive activists to run for president in 2016, but ultimately succeeded, paving the way for Sanders to launch a campaign to the left of Hillary Clinton. Although he lost, the support that Sanders amalgamated among the party’s left continued in its current race at the expense of Warren.
Warren’y’s entry into the 2020 election was prefaced by his much-criticized decision in October 2018 to publish DNA results that showed “solid evidence” that she had a six to 10 generation Native American heritage. .
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It was an attempt to anticipate the continuing attacks she would face in the presidential race for claiming Native American heritage in the past. The Republicans and Trump relentlessly mocked Warren as “Pocahontas”. Trump has pledged a million dollar donation to a charity of his choice if DNA results prove his claims.
But his publication of the DNA results sparked a reaction from Native American groups, including the Cherokee Nation, who criticized his decision to use DNA tests to claim that the Native American heritage was “inappropriate and false”. They said that Warren “undermines tribal interests with his continuing claims to tribal heritage.” Warren later apologized.
Warren’s ancestry problem dates back to the 1980s, when as a law professor at the University of Texas, she began to run as a minority professor at the Association of American Law Schools. There is no evidence that she registered as a Native American when she was hired by the University of Pennsylvania and later Harvard.
Known for jogging on stage to address her supporters, the energetic Warren began his speeches by discussing his humble education in Oklahoma, his marriage to his high school girlfriend, and his rapid divorce which caused ‘a single mother in Texas. She graduated from the University of Houston and later remarried to Bruce Mann, who was hired at Harvard as a law professor several years after Warren.
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Warren has presented herself as a “fighter” for life, from her childhood until her challenge of Brown, because she argued that she was the Democrat best equipped to lead the “fight” against Trump.
She reminded voters of the slogan “Nevertheless, she persisted”, that the majority of the Senate Mitch McConnell referred to Warren’s object to Trump’s appointment of Jeff Sessions as attorney general. It has become a rallying cry for many Democrats.
As she stumbled, Warren tweaked her case by also calling herself a candidate who could unite the fragmented Democratic coalition in the general election. It seemed like a subtle dig at Sanders, who was faced with questions about his ability to unify all party factions against Trump.
Although Warren’s presidential candidacy was not up to snuff, it will still be considered among the main Senate Liberals, where he has four years left for his second term.
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