Win or lose, her anger and her passion have inspired millions, and no Democrat will win the White House without her guidance and her help
You wouldn’t know it looking at the headlines, but the Democratic primary is not over. After three contests, only one of which had a clear and definitive victor, the media has declared that the nominee will inevitably be the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. Emissaries from the party’s centrist wing have begun wetting themselves accordingly. To hear some pundits tell it, both the primary contest and the general election have already been decided: it will definitely be Sanders, they tell us, and he will definitely lose.
Absent from these prognostications has been Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator whose campaign has faltered in recent months. After a third place finish in Iowa and a disappointing fourth place showing in New Hampshire, her candidacy has largely been presumed dead. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of potential general election matchups didn’t even include her. The television host Joe Scarborough, declaring that the party must unify to defeat Sanders, unhelpfully called on Warren to drop out of the race on Monday, along with the only other woman still running, the Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar. “Is it time for Elizabeth Warren [to drop out]?” Scarborough asked on MSNBC. “Is it time for her to get out of the race?”
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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
