What went wrong for Elizabeth Warren? irin, realaxelfoley, and EricLevitz discuss
An inspiring campaign, but not a winning one. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential campaign on Thursday. For months, she had been a top-tier contender, sometimes flirting with front-runner status. But as she lost ground to Bernie Sanders among the party’s liberal wing and failed to pick up enough minority support, it became clear that she had no path to the nomination.
Eric: I disagree slightly. The polling I’ve seen, both internal and external, really did show Warren doing significantly worse against Trump than the other major candidates , and I think that hurt her with both the public and perhaps with would-be endorsers. I would also say that Pete Buttigieg’s surprising strength is probably an underrated factor given the overlap in their bases of appeal.
Irin: I don’t think it would have been dispositive because I am deeply fatalistic about the misogyny, including internalized and projected misogyny, of even the Democratic electorate, but a criticism I had of the Warren campaign is that she was overly reactive. She let Trump and right-wing radio bully her into the DNA test; she spent too long answering bad-faith questions about how to do Medicare for All; she tried out the unity candidate thing when it made no sense for her.
Ben: Does the failure of Warren’s campaign mean that we’re unlikely to see someone in a Democratic primary embrace her strategy of drilling down on the gritty details of government again anytime soon? But I would guess that Warren’s campaign strategy of running on actual technocratic chops — while being a liberal woman — is not going to be emulated in the near future.
Irin: She waited until June in 2016, and I could see her doing it again. She can keep doing what she’s doing in the Senate no matter who the candidate is. So she might as well stay neutral until it’s all over.
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