With little left to lose, Elizabeth Warren rolls the dice

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-little-left-to-lose-elizabeth-warren-rolls-the-dice/2020/02/21/74ac5f8c-5435-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html



LAS VEGAS — Everybody loses some of their inhibitions in Las Vegas. Even Elizabeth Warren.

This is where the Democratic senator from Massachusetts shrugged off her reluctance to criticize rivals and eviscerated them during a debate, landing precision blows one after the other. This is where she accepted the help of a super PAC, reversing a central tenet of her presidential campaign about the corrupting power of money. And this is where it started to look like she was having fun for the first time in months, just ahead of Saturday’s Nevada caucuses.

After moping two weeks ago through New Hampshire, where she stressed to audiences that she hasn’t spent her career pining for the White House, she was suddenly making changes that could expand the possibility that she gets there.

Allies say Warren’s demeanor changed after disappointing results rolled in from gray and snow-covered New Hampshire. Already upset with herself for a lackluster New Hampshire debate and down about her disappointing third-place finish in Iowa, she made a case to her staff that this was the time to fight.

“There’s going to come a time when it is clear what’s going to happen in this contest, but that time is not now,” she said, according to a person familiar with the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss it. “We are nowhere near that moment. We are not close. We’re not even within shouting distance.

“These are the moments we find out who we are.”

Elizabeth Warren came to make plans and kick ass. And she's made more than enough plans.

[CentralMass]

1. I hope that she does well.

[turbinetree]

2. So Persist Pac is helping

and the Treasury name is:

Christopher Koob

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00739110/1385617/

[Frasier Balzov]

3. That last quote of hers is perceptive, wise, and

demonstrates a keen awareness of history.

[beastie boy]

4. I was wondering when she will make her move.

It is not in her character to follow or play second fiddle. She is her own woman.

[Doremus]

5. We're very fortunate to have her and I hope she continues to move up.

[Turin_C3PO]

6. I'm thinking she'd be a good unity candidate

if none of the others have a majority come convention time.

[David__77]

7. Could be so.

...

[Moderateguy]

8. As a VO nominee

The top of the ticket has to be a moderate to win in middle America

[IronLionZion]

10. Yeah because Trump is so moderate

[Moderateguy]

11. Our voters don't vote like Brain-dead zombies

Republican voters do so yeah it makes a big difference

[IronLionZion]

13. We need Obama-like high turnout on our side.

No matter who it is. I believe a liberal would encourage higher turnout than a moderate.

[Moderateguy]

14. Then we have to agree to disagree and leave it at that

I think a liberal candidate would cost us the house

[IronLionZion]

9. She has very few negatives, people could probably support her

without much reservation during the primaries.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Warren is going on the warpath.