Barely made it through the last campaign. I know it is an older .gif but holds up well.
Posted on 07/10/2018 3:19:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Can Elizabeth Warren win back blue-collar Democrats from President Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania?
It’s a question many Democrats are pondering as Warren — one of the leading contenders for her party’s presidential nomination, if she chooses to run in 2020 — goes back and forth with the president over immigration and other issues.
Warren (D-Mass.) has shown an ability to rally and excite progressives, she’s a proven fundraiser and she has policy bona fides from her work in the Senate. Yet there are creeping doubts among some Democrats that she’s the best candidate to take on Trump.
Some worry the former Harvard professor will have a tough time winning back the Rust Belt centrists and independents who abandoned Hillary Clinton and Democrats for Trump.
“I just can’t see a blue-collar, Rust Belt guy voting for her,” said one Democratic strategist who has worked on presidential campaigns. “I think the party needs to be realistic about that.”
Some Democrats almost certainly remain shellshocked from the last election after Trump’s surprise win. He became the first Republican to win the states of Pennsylvania and Michigan in a presidential election since 1988 and the first Republican to win Wisconsin since President Reagan in 1984.
If Democrats don’t retake those states in 2020, their chances of winning the Electoral College will fall.
Teeth-gnashing over who is best-positioned to take on Trump, as a result, is already taking place ahead of the midterm elections.
Warren’s gender and her political identity as a voice on the left are both likely to be issues for primary voters sizing up Democratic candidates in potential head-to-head matchups with Trump. Would she be stronger than former Vice President Joe Biden? What about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)? Does the party need the face of a new political generation, such as Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J.) or Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.)?
Warren has her advocates, who say the senator’s anti-corporate economic message will resonate with the types of voters who left the party for Trump.
Jesse Ferguson, who served as a spokesman for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, said Warren “has a powerful economic message that resonates everywhere.”
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Warren is the perfect candidate to oppose Trump because she “has the ability to go straight at him on his economic policies.”
She also argued that Trump’s repeated attacks on Warren suggest the White House sees her as a threat.
“I think this man understands his brand very well and understands his populist appeal very, very well, and he realizes how threatening to him she is on his brand,” Lake said.
Warren’s office declined to comment for this story.
It’s good thing the Dems never let the voters pick the candidate ,LOL
Go straight at him on what are you smoking?
Oh I am sure she will sell well in swing states...
Hillary! Hillary!
Yes, Fauxcahantas should run...
And to sweeten the pot, Dems should let Michelle Obama make the announcement.
ROTFLOL.
I have never seen the woman as anything but a scolding harpy. Hillary knows enough to fake being likable.
Barely made it through the last campaign. I know it is an older .gif but holds up well.
When did hildabeast have charisma?
That’s the joke
Since when is a Harvard professor and fake Indian a “populist?” Do words even mean anything anymore? Not in the world’s most wretched publication.
Please, please, please, please, please....
nitelt fake news.
They will find the usual pretty boy.....doesn't matter if he's scr***** anything that moves....
“When did hildabeast have charisma?”
I think you might have missed the pun :-) .
Hillary has no charisma.
Warren is *worse* than Hillary in the charisma department. Just listen to her to get an idea of what’s she’s like.
Please, lurking Dems, let Princess Gray Beaver roam the electoral warpath.
Yes, she is.
She’s obviously leader of the Free World material.
Anyone who can’t see it is blind.
Jesse Ferguson, who served as a spokesman for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, said Warren “has a powerful economic message that resonates everywhere.”
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Warren is the perfect candidate to oppose Trump because she “has the ability to go straight at him on his economic policies.”
These Democrats are more clueless than anyone thought possible! They make Monty Python's Black Knight look like a deep thinker and the ultimate realist.
Cultural appropriation bump!
makes good sense for the SorozNazi DNC
to select the fake Injun squaw
they won twice with the fake American
having false credentials is a proven winning strategy for the extreme left nowadays
how about a Fakeahaunches/MadMaxine Waters ticket?
a real two=fer
the east coast and the west coast crazies teamed together
Trump recently played rope-a-dope with Fauxchahontas. Bring on round two.
Depends on which one they want to lose......HAHA
My bet is on Corey Booker.
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