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Dems mull whether Warren is the one to take on Trump
The Hill ^ | May 10, 2018 | Amie Parnes

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.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2020election; election; election2010; elizabethwarren; fauxcahontas; lizwarren; presidenttrump; trump; warren
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To: Zhang Fei
Most of the Democrats who voted to confirm Thomas were Southerners who usually voted with the Republicans. Congress and the country were very different back then. It wouldn't happen today.

Some Black men may have felt personal sympathy for Thomas but so far as I recall, they kept it to themselves. I don't remember any groundswell of African-American opinion in his favor.

Politics inside the African-American community can be tricky and shades of skin color and who one is married to play a role. It's often been said that Barack Obama would not have become president if he were married to a White woman (or if he were unmarried), and that's probably true.

101 posted on 07/10/2018 5:53:52 PM PDT by x
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To: EdnaMode
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.”

By all means, run against a booming economy, record low unemployment and tax cuts. Please!

102 posted on 07/10/2018 5:55:00 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Menehune56
This one photo is the reason why Corey Booker will never be president. That was a Howard Dean moment for him. Creepy as all get out. Just devastating. He'll never overcome it.


103 posted on 07/10/2018 6:00:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( Have you eaten your bone marrow today?)
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To: EdnaMode
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.

Ya, but with Independents and Republicans, she's a joke.

104 posted on 07/10/2018 6:03:59 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (All Democrats have to offer is violence, intolerance, divisiveness and hatred.)
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105 posted on 07/10/2018 6:10:55 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: EdnaMode

Oh I hope they pick Pocahontas! The jokes will keep coming and coming. It’ll be a regular pow wow!


106 posted on 07/10/2018 6:14:00 PM PDT by Savage Beast (A pornography "star" and a foul-mouthed clown are appropriate spokesmen for the Democrat Party)
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To: EdnaMode

Warren wants to go to the White Tipi...? Squaw SpeakingBull? ROTFLMAO....And for vice President that Bartender that beat Crowley...


107 posted on 07/10/2018 6:37:24 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: musicman

"Well, I may not have a reservation", replied Pucky-heinous, "but I do have a teepee!"


       

108 posted on 07/10/2018 6:43:56 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Pray All Day

109 posted on 07/10/2018 6:56:03 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Her Indian name is Princess Chief Crazy Whores.


110 posted on 07/10/2018 7:03:51 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: butlerweave

Can you imagine going into Iowa and trying to sell people on Warren? Zero chance of winning the caucus. Out of the first four states in the primary system, I just can’t see her winning any of them. Maybe out of fifty states, she might be able to carry five states at best.


111 posted on 07/10/2018 7:15:46 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: EdnaMode
Can Elizabeth Warren win back blue-collar Democrats from President Trump in Michigan,...

NO! Not another fork-tongued female! Slithery Rotten Criminal was enough!

112 posted on 07/10/2018 7:23:31 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: fhayek

“Warren is Hillary without the charisma...”

Lol! I actually would prefer Hillary to that fraud. But I would prefer neither.


113 posted on 07/10/2018 11:16:44 PM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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