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As Elizabeth Warren eyes White House run, Her Senate race could pose hurdle
Fox News ^ | 02/06/2017 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 02/06/2017 7:51:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Liberal icon Elizabeth Warren has emerged as the scourge of the Trump administration, grilling the president’s Cabinet nominees at every chance and coming out against Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch within minutes of his nomination.

The moves are what one might expect from a presidential aspirant. But Warren, who is placed in the top tier of likely Democratic 2020 candidates in very-early polls, first has to keep her Massachusetts Senate seat. It’s not a sure thing.

According to WBUR poll, just 44 percent of state voters think she deserves re-election, while a plurality – 46 percent – believes she doesn’t deserve a second term. Overall, Warren has a 51 percent favorability rating in the deep blue state.

Republicans are ready to pounce – looking not only to reclaim the seat held, briefly, by GOP Sen. Scott Brown, but potentially sideline a future White House contestant.

“She is absolutely vulnerable. When she should be working for the people of the state, she is spending her time antagonizing the president,” Massachusetts Republican state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who is considering a 2018 Senate run, told Fox News. “She might as well be running for chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.”

Diehl was co-chairman of President Trump’s Bay State campaign last year and gained statewide notoriety in 2014 leading a successful referendum to halt gas tax hikes.

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, a conservative talk radio host, also is considering running – though how serious, or viable, he is remains unclear. A Suffolk University poll last October found Warren leading Schilling by 58-24 percent.

A UMass Amherst poll last September found Warren would be in a statistical dead heat with either Republican Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito or former Republican Gov. Bill Weld – though it’s unlikely either Polito or Weld would run.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2018midterms; 2020demprimary; ma2018; massachusetts; senate; warren
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To: SeekAndFind

...Liberal icon Elizabeth Warren...
A Fringe lunatic liberal among the many who can’t come to terms of why and how they lost the House, Senate, the Presidency, and 1,000+ state and local offices.
They need to be ground into the mud they are creating and wallowing in


21 posted on 02/06/2017 8:11:57 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pocahontas is running in 2020?


22 posted on 02/06/2017 8:12:04 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: SeekAndFind

If Curt Shilling runs against her in 2018, she’s toast.


23 posted on 02/06/2017 8:13:56 AM PST by struggle (The)
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To: struggle

If Curt Schilling would turn the squaw into burnt toast, Tom Brady would grind her into breadcrumbs.

There’s a victory rally tomorrow in Boston for the Patriots. When the inevitable question comes about what Tom Brady is going to do next season, he should answer, “I’m thinking of retiring and running for senator.”

That would ruffle a few feathers (pun intended).


24 posted on 02/06/2017 8:24:00 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: SeekAndFind

Elizabeth Warren Eyes White House Run

Because there are still a few things in America that Barack Obama and other insane democrats haven’t managed to totally destroy.


25 posted on 02/06/2017 8:28:11 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah! The idiot Fake injun squaw. -— after obama and HilLIARy too. The DNC commits suicide.


26 posted on 02/06/2017 8:28:59 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: SeekAndFind
E. Warren is not up on our Constitution...could be because she thinks it is old and moldy?

TWO THINGS THAT ARE CONSTANT...THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AND OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION. Elizabeth Warren is one of the reasons Donald Trump is POTUS.

27 posted on 02/06/2017 8:29:01 AM PST by yoe
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To: SeekAndFind

If the GOPe were smart (something I haven’t seen much evidence of in a long, long time) they would secretly fund a strong dem candidate to kill off Fauxcohontas politically.


28 posted on 02/06/2017 8:29:02 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Soros first political party quit collecting dues in 1945, now hes right at home as a marxist dem)
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To: SeekAndFind

Geoff Diehl is a good man, and what Mass desperately needs. Sorry Curt


29 posted on 02/06/2017 8:34:39 AM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Every Senator is a national politician now and none of them (or very few of them) represent their state. The 17th amendment was a very bad idea. If not then, then certainly now with the digital revolution. At this point the state doesn’t really have a representative and as such the separation of branches is really not in full force. There are two bodies of congress who represent “The people” and this is being so badly manipulated that you may as well get rid of the Senate all together.


30 posted on 02/06/2017 8:35:15 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Sorry to inform you, but it will be Kamala Harris. She has all the bona fides of Obama, PLUS she’s a woman and was actually the elected AG of California. I sure hope California secedes before she can be foisted on us via the ignorant Leftist voters (legal, illegal and dead).


31 posted on 02/06/2017 8:35:33 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAASSSSSSSE let her run!!!!!!


32 posted on 02/06/2017 8:39:20 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: CommerceComet

“I’d be surprised if she lost her Senate seat in 2018 but I would be surprised if she emerged as the nominee in 2020.”

You nailed it. She’s a combination of a nitwit and a Patty Murray type ideologue. She’s a millionaire academic who lies routinely and sees herself as better than everyone. If she weren’t a leftist, she would have been fully revealed and dismissed long ago.


33 posted on 02/06/2017 8:42:52 AM PST by Luke21
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To: SeekAndFind
Keep in mind that Elizabeth Warren didn't win her election. Scott Brown lost it by waging an insanely awful campaign. Add to that you can't tell MA that refugees who haven't been properly vetted do bad things, like blow up marathon finish lines.

It's up to the 'pubs to choose a candidate who gets it, about that streak of independence in most MA voters.

34 posted on 02/06/2017 8:45:48 AM PST by grania
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To: HomerBohn
She is yet another ghastly Democrat female

It isn't just the dems. Both political parties have moved along candidates whom they can control.

Occasionally, an exception does overcome that, Joni Ernst and that HOR Hawaiian HOR rep come to mind. Could it be that we might do well by wanting female candidates with a military background? Just letting my thoughts ramble here...

35 posted on 02/06/2017 9:05:25 AM PST by grania
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To: SeekAndFind

More than her electability, the senate race will illustrate how much warren actually believes in the integrity of elections. My guess: zero.


36 posted on 02/06/2017 9:20:41 AM PST by DPMD
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To: vette6387
Just keep that worthless turd Scott Brown out of the action!

Scott Brown has moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

Curt Shilling should have run when Scott Brown did, Shilling was well known and liked then, compared to the unknown Scott Brown.
But now I believe Shilling has picked up too many negatives since then in his business dealings.

The Republicans should cross both Brown and Shilling off their list.

IMHO- To give you an idea of how left wing our state is, Michelle Obama could run and win for senator, without even campaigning here. -Tom

37 posted on 02/06/2017 9:52:36 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: HomerBohn

“Liberal icon Elizabeth Warren”

“Liberal Icon”? Why stop there? Just go ahead & name her “Saint Elizabeth”! There is already a place named and reserved for her in Washington, DC.

“Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital is the District’s public psychiatric facility...”


38 posted on 02/06/2017 10:08:19 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: HomerBohn
"We’ve seen sickening videos of unarmed, black Americans cut down by bullets, .... mostly fired by other black Americans

choked to death while gasping for air -- their lives ended by those who are sworn to protect them. ... see "How not to get your A$$ beaten by a cop", by Chris Rock.

Peaceful, unarmed protesters have been beaten. ....most of them were Trump supporters, though, and they were beaten by rioters.

Journalists have been jailed. And, in some cities, white vigilantes with weapons freely walk the streets.” .... This is the kicker. Show me one. Just one, and I'll gladly remain quiet. Name one jailed journalist. Show me a video of one real, honest-to-goodness White Power vigilante, that wasn't a leftist agitator posing and trying to cause trouble.

Just one.

39 posted on 02/06/2017 10:33:03 AM PST by wbill
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To: yoe
True enough. The Executive branch enforces the laws of the United States. President Trump took an oath to "Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States".

Arguably, Our Current President is doing *exactly* what he should be doing.

In contrast to the past yokel.

40 posted on 02/06/2017 10:37:14 AM PST by wbill
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