Two of the Senate’s highest-profile progressives are attracting presidential speculation — again. Roughly two years after Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) suspended…
Everyone was waiting for her to endorse Bernie for the MA primary which eventually went to Hillary in an extremely tight contest. The consensus at the time was that because Warren was touted as a progressive, she would naturally support Bernie. Her refusal was a tipping point in the race.
Ah, yeah, we were all waiting on her to endorse, but can't say I agree it would've made that much of a difference in 2016. He had an uphill battle the entire time. It was totally fucked up when it came out afterwards that she spent a considerable amount of time advising the Clinton campaign, while claiming to remain neutral, but his reach outside the youth vote was always going to be a fight when he still had so little name recognition on the national stage. He would've killed it in the general though... if the Dem party rallied around him.
Sure, Sanders would probably have lost even with Warren's endorsement, but her silence was a calculated kneecapping of Bernie's momentum at a critical junction. Her favorability has suffered so much in recent years that we forget just how influential she was at the time. In hindsight, it was foolishly naive of us to assume she was a Sanders ally just because they aligned superficially on a few populist issues. And yeah, he would have slayed in the general. But alas... :flattened-bernie:
How do you mean? She didn't run in 2016.
Everyone was waiting for her to endorse Bernie for the MA primary which eventually went to Hillary in an extremely tight contest. The consensus at the time was that because Warren was touted as a progressive, she would naturally support Bernie. Her refusal was a tipping point in the race.
Ah, yeah, we were all waiting on her to endorse, but can't say I agree it would've made that much of a difference in 2016. He had an uphill battle the entire time. It was totally fucked up when it came out afterwards that she spent a considerable amount of time advising the Clinton campaign, while claiming to remain neutral, but his reach outside the youth vote was always going to be a fight when he still had so little name recognition on the national stage. He would've killed it in the general though... if the Dem party rallied around him.
Sure, Sanders would probably have lost even with Warren's endorsement, but her silence was a calculated kneecapping of Bernie's momentum at a critical junction. Her favorability has suffered so much in recent years that we forget just how influential she was at the time. In hindsight, it was foolishly naive of us to assume she was a Sanders ally just because they aligned superficially on a few populist issues. And yeah, he would have slayed in the general. But alas... :flattened-bernie: