Yes. Absolutely. It's in her DNA.
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.
How ?
She’s exactly the one we want.
Trump already has her ballistic coordinates zeroed in.
Lmfao
The woman makes people laugh. She is an idiot.
Whistling past the graveyard. If Kamala runs, she’ll win the black vote and steamroll Warren. 2nd coming of Obama and all that.
She looked like a loon outside the Supreme Court. She comes across like a deranged spinster.
Dear Lord PLEASE let them come to this conclusion!!!!!
Please, oh please.
A lying ex-Harvard “professor”....bwahahahahahahaha.
No.
Yeah right. She can throw her hat in the ring from Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Noooo....it’s gotta be the MadMaxiePad.
MadMaxie is black, female (I think) and has all the face & voice of the DNC.
What possibly go wrong?
Run, MadMaxie....RUN!!!!!
Re your suggestion...to funny for words; Trump would win in a larger landslide that Reagan had.
Hillary is way in the back of the room, waving her hands to and fro, like a Dutch Windmill. “Hi! Guys, what about me?”
Warren is Hillary without the charisma...
There's a good reason for that, you know.
The Dems are stupid,but even THEY aren’t that stupid-—it will never be Mad Max.
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When did hildabeast have charisma?
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