Ayanna Pressley endorses Elizabeth Warren

[BeyondGeography]

US Representative Ayanna Pressley, a rising progressive star and the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress, announced Wednesday she is endorsing Senator Elizabeth Warren for president, delivering a major boost to the Cambridge Democrat as she faces growing attacks from her political rivals.

“The American people deserve to be represented by elected officials who see them, who listen to them, and who fight for them,” Pressley says in a video announcement of her endorsement. “This election is a fight for the very soul of our nation. Elizabeth knows how to fight and she knows how to win.”

The backing of a prominent woman of color could help Warren build support among black voters, who are seen as key to her hopes of winning the nomination.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/06/ayanna-pressley-endorses-elizabeth-warren/xCGU7EcQYuNqOgyrhEu1sO/story.html?event=event12

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[BlueMTexpat]

1. Great news!

[BeyondGeography]

3. My favorite "Squad" member

She’s pretty awesome.

[TidalWave46]

2. Very nice endorsement. NT

[backtoblue]

4. K&R!!

[OldRed2450]

5. This is a great endorsement

Warren is very lucky to have her. Congrats!

[Hortensis]

6. A match: Both principled, goal directed and high functioning.

That said, I believe Warren's extreme MfA plan means she'll continue serving in the senate. The WaPo editorial board just came out with their unequivocal opinion based on expert analyses that it can't work, and that's hardly the only one.

SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH care can work. Government-run systems operate in other industrialized countries and often achieve comparable or better overall results, for less money, than the health-care patchwork in the United States. So why aren’t Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposing something that resembles those systems?

The two presidential candidates promise far more generous benefits than other countries offer. They pretend that the United States wouldn’t have to make any of the trade-offs other nations have had to make. They promise fantastically generous benefits, no premiums, co-payments or other cost-sharing, and a miraculously low price tag. It’s fiction.

... Meanwhile, Ms. Warren last week released a detailed explanation purporting to show how her system would function and, crucially, how the federal treasury could finance such a vast entitlement expansion. The result is inescapable: As written, it couldn’t. ...

All Americans should have decent health-care coverage. They should also have good schools, good roads and world-class universities. Nations with single-payer plans have had to make real-world compromises among these various needs. If the Warren and Sanders plans sound too good to be true, it’s for a reason.

[BeyondGeography]

7. There are so many other CW threads where you can post that drivel

You just had to do that here?

[Hortensis]

8. The WaPo editorial board is not drivel, nor are the top analysts

they consult. Look, the truth is what it is, not what we want it to be. I've been a longtime Warren admirer, and I'd be glad to wipe out the new ultrawealthy classes on January 21, 2021, but it's not that easy and it's not the answer to all our giant emergency budget problems.

Itm, the Republicans are doing their best to bankrupt our federal government so we CAN'T fulfill our goals, the latest just the worst by far in a long pattern of doing just that. And we have many very important goals we must achieve, not just one.

You know, economic plans that most highly regarded economists say aren't feasible aren't like her. She's actually making me wonder if her goal never has been to become president. Maybe she's just leading the national conversation out to imagine what could be beyond the horizon.

And Pressley, also a women with a history of good sense, approves.

[BeyondGeography]

9. This is a positive endorsement thread for Warren and you are the only here trying to hijack it

Joe got a good endorsement today. Should I go over to that thread and say, gee, that's great, but this Republican epiphany idea of his is not going to work, and here are three links to high-profile people that say so? No. I guess we're different that way.

[Hortensis]

11. No to partisan hostility. If you don't want primary discussion,

post in Warren's candidate forum. I assume enthusiasts still gather in those to share their happy thoughts?

[BeyondGeography]

12. Pressley will be introducing Warren in Raleigh tonight

https://myfox8.com/2019/11/07/sen-elizabeth-warren-to-speak-at-nc-at-state-university-in-greensboro-on-thursday/

Thanks for the kick.

[Hortensis]

13. You're welcome. Wish I were there.

[Baclava]

10. 'I Can't Wait to Call Her My President': Ayanna Pressley

Me neither!

[comradebillyboy]

14. Not at all surprising. Warren is Pressley's senator and political ally. She

gains nothing by going along with The Squad's endorsement of Sanders.