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Why Elizabeth Warren thinks she can still win the nomination

„This crisis demands more than a senator who has good ideas, but whose 30-year track record shows he consistently calls for things he fails to get done, and consistently opposes things he nevertheless fails to stop,” she said.

The comment upset some Sanders aides and supporters as the relationship between the two progressive allies and friends continues to deteriorate.

Warren has been particularly focused on casting herself as the more “effective” progressive. “If you think we need both progressive ideas and progressive results, then join us,” she said during the same speech, which she made as her dismal showing in South Carolina became apparent. During Tuesday’s debate, Warren said: “We need a president who is going to dig in, do the hard work, and actually get it done. Progressives have got one shot.“

Warren’s strategy ultimately relies on Sanders having a “ceiling,” as Lau recently argued, and on the scrutiny that comes with being a frontrunner causing some supporters to drift back to Warren.

Warren’s allies have also been attempting to win back some support on the left that Sanders has consolidated by highlighting her prosecution of Bloomberg’s 24-karat candidacy. Some are hawking her as the “Bloomberg slayer.”

Warren’s team has also tested new arguments on electability after her unity-candidate messaging didn’t appear to work in the initial contests. The squishy concept of electability has dogged Warren more than her male rivals — in part because of many Democrats’ shock at watching Hillary Clinton lose in 2016, and in part because of double standards in American politics.

Two high-profile Warren surrogates — singer and songwriter John Legend and Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker and actress who is the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newson — have told voters that it’s impossible to know which candidate is the most electable. But Warren, they said, is a proven winner.

“I know that Donald Trump is an existential threat to this nation and everyone is hoping and praying we pick the most electable candidate from the Democratic Party,” Legend said at a rally in Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday night. “But the fact is I can’t predict who the most electable nominee is. In 2016, we thought we did that. And you probably can’t predict who’s going to win either. So I’m voting based on who I think will make the best president.”

Siebel Newsom echoed a similar theme in her endorsement video. ““Vote your conscience, not what the pundits and the billionaires are telling you to do,” she said. “Because Sen. Elizabeth Warren is electable.”

For her part, Warren has started off her events with a new rallying cry focused on electability. After Warren rarely mentioned the president in her stump speech most of the campaign, her new opening line goes: “My name is Elizabeth Warren. I’m the woman who’s going to beat Donald Trump.”

Source: politico.com
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