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Elizabeth Warren announced her candidacy on February 9, 2019.

Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy 10 days later, on February 19, 2019.

Who chose to become whose opponent?
Two more things about this:

1. Until Bernie announced, I felt - and I recall other people saying - that there was a good chance he might not run again.

2. The idea that Bernie owns the "economic leftist" lane of politics, in perpetuity and in absentia, seems a little silly.
Bernie in November 2018: "I will PROBABLY run IF I'm the best candidate to beat Trump"

thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Interviewer: "But you are not ruling it out. You are saying you are seriously considering it?"

Bernie: "That is correct."

11/2018

realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/11/…
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