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Warren readies for 2020 run

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The Massachusetts senator’s presidential race choreography is unmistakable.

At a town hall meeting last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren finally revealed she was taking “a hard look” at running for president.

Now it’s clear just how hard she’s looking.

Monday’s grandiose, made-for-media detailing of her Native American ancestry — complete with DNA documentation — erased any questions about the Massachusetts Democrat‘s intent.

Something approaching a 2020 campaign slogan is beginning to take shape: “Persist.” Her political team rolled out a nationwide “PERSIST Project” campaign on Facebook this past June, hawking free state-specific “Persist” bumper stickers. At the progressive conference Netroots Nation in August, Warren’s team distributed signs with the single word to the audience to wave during her speech. The front page of her website currently includes a mosaic slideshow of supporters wearing “She Persisted” T-shirts.

The breadth of her national political operation was made clear in an exhaustive account on Sunday. In recent months, Warren has released 10 years of tax returns, introduced a major anti-corruption legislative package, published policy papers and even shifted from her studied avoidance of the press to stopping in the Senate hallway to take questions and taking private, off-the-record meetings with national reporters in New York and Washington.

All along, Warren has supported a sprawling network of Democratic candidates, pouring $8 million into campaigns across the country, placing staff in key races and making personal contacts with winning and losing candidates in pivotal states.

And if the 2020 choreography wasn’t unmistakable enough, Monday’s video rollout sent a clear sign to any Democrat who wondered whether Warren would fight back against President Donald Trump, who has taunted her as “Pocahontas” and stated he would donate $1 million to Warren’s charity of choice if she took a DNA test that proved her claims of Native American ancestry.

By taking the test, demanding that Trump pay the money he publicly wagered against her and wrapping it all with an expertly produced video that detailed her roots to Oklahoma Republicans, Warren went about as far toward announcing her candidacy as she could without actually saying the words.

Jim Demers, a New Hampshire-based strategist on presidential campaigns, called Warren’s moves “smart” in today’s environment.

“Once the 2018 election is over, I think the presidential race is going to bust wide open,” Demers said. “That’s mainly because the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary will literally be less than a year and a half away. That’s not a lot of time to be organizing and campaigning. Any of the potential candidates who has laid the groundwork now will see it pay off. This campaign is going to move very fast.”

While some Democrats criticized Warren for distracting from November‘s midterms, her moves were in keeping with a flurry of recent positioning moves by potential 2020 candidates.

“You want to get out early enough so you can raise the money you need and lock in the political support you need but you also don’t want to appear getting out too early before a midterm election,” former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said. “I assume that’s the needle they’re trying to thread here.”

Democratic strategist and former adviser to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Patti Solis Doyle called the video release a savvy play by Warren, allowing her to get out her message, signal she would stand up to Trump and take potential backers on a tour of her family background and professional credentials.

But Doyle also questioned Warren’s timing, saying her actions are different than other 2020 contenders who are laying the groundwork by campaigning in early presidential states.

“With a wink and a nod they’re going to Iowa campaigning for Democrats who are in serious races,” Solis Doyle said of other Democrats in the field. “You can’t even with a wink and a nod say this is for anyone but Elizabeth Warren, in defense of Elizabeth Warren, promoting Elizabeth Warren.”

Warren, who is in a reelection contest of her own — and still staring at three debates in the campaign homestretch — has not yet visited Iowa, and, as of now, has no events scheduled there before the midterm elections.

The Massachusetts senator has sent out emails on behalf of local candidates, offered financial support and in upcoming days, is set to take part in a conference call as part of the Iowa coordinated Democratic campaign.

Still, she risks getting outpaced in Iowa by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who has already has stormed the state, and other top potential candidates including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Kamala Harris of California, who are scheduled to stump for candidates there next week.

“They were waiting for somebody to go first, Sen. Booker went first. Sen. Harris is coming,” Iowa campaign strategist Matt Paul said of possible 2020 contenders visiting the first presidential state. “The door is open. If [Warren] put out a video like this, it only makes sense she follow it up with a visit.”

As Monday’s rollout made clear, Warren’s “Pocahontas” problem still hasn’t been fully resolved. Her submission to a DNA test comes after six years of trying to find another way to defuse the issue.

Trump reignited it during the 2016 campaign as Warren became a high profile surrogate for Hillary Clinton. The president’s incessant taunts — combined with deep reporting in early 2018 by The Boston Globe — helped prompt Warren to give a speech to the National Congress of American Indians in February 2018 where she attacked Trump for “reducing Native history, Native culture, Native people to the butt of a joke.”

She then promised the group that “[e]very time someone brings up my family’s story, I’m going to use it to lift up the story of your families and your communities.”

On Monday, Republicans — led by the president — showed every sign they weren’t about to let it drop, despite reports and former superiors supporting Warren’s claim that she received no special treatment for her claims of Native American heritage while a university professor.

“Senator Warren’s latest ‘disclosure’ is a glaring signal that she recognizes this issue is going to be a major problem for her all-but-announced presidential campaign,” Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Reed said in a statement.

Donald Trump Jr., often the tip of the spear for White House attacks, also chimed in about Warren’s disclosure: “I’m gonna go out in a limb here and say she did it to get favorable treatment throughout her career. The real shame is that those benefits could have gone to someone who was way more than 0.0009765% maybe Native American. #fraud.”

The president, who denied Monday that he had wagered $1 million despite a public statement to the contrary, said he welcomed a presidential challenge from Warren while talking to reporters on the South Lawn.

“I hope she’s running for president because I think she would be very easy,” Trump said. “I do not think she would be difficult at all. She’ll destroy the country. She’ll make our country into Venezuela. With that being said, I don’t want to say bad things about her because I would hope that she would be one of the people that would get through the process. It’s going to be a long process for the Democrats.”

source: politico.com

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Comments 7

  1. Robert L Martin says:
    2 years ago

    This woman couldn’t run for dog catcher in the middle of Death Valley and win. What is she thinking? Is her running mate Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Michelle Obama or Maxine Waters? Anyone of them is more than qualified to be her VP.

    Reply
  2. Aaron Petty says:
    2 years ago

    Given up on The Trump and a troubled scared Republicans who worry more about themselves then the American people, I am no longer have affiliations with the Republican Party. I have joined The American People’s movement. Anyone but Trump and or this aged group of morons, it’s time for the people to revolt and throw them all out and start fresh, come & join me in a Worldwide movement for change. There is only one Earth & and at the rate we have been distorted it, soon there will be nothing left and life will follow to the end, just another Dead Planet orbiting a Red ball of fire & Death.

    Reply
  3. Eric Rhodes says:
    2 years ago

    OMG Already, enough of this non sense about who belongs to what tribe, this tribalism is another race baiting tactic, just as is victimism, it’s far better counterpart is survivorism.

    There is only one race: HUMAN, ethinicity in the new age of political identity by race is finished, Elizabeth Warren played that one out, she’s as much an Indian as just about everyone is it turns out.

    She can forget 2020.

    Reply
  4. CChristophrr Lane says:
    2 years ago

    Warren is, in my opinion, an ass and her race-baiting proves it. Indian heritage is a joke.

    Reply
  5. David says:
    2 years ago

    Warren is wooden like Al Gore. Her only personality trait is bitterness and she has a huge credibility problem. Anyone running against her is going to bring up her DNA test and how it disproved everything she has said for decades about her Native American bloodline. She doesn’t have a chance of becoming President.

    Reply
  6. Bill Meyers says:
    2 years ago

    HillRy Clinton 2.0. Sane results.

    Reply
  7. howard buckley says:
    2 years ago

    pocohauntas should run ok run away from her past nothing more than shit under americas feet, but isn,t that most dumbacrats.

    Reply

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