Thread by @jessbidgood

NEW: I sat down with Elizabeth Warren in her kitchen this afternoon, for her first interview since exiting the presidential race. On Sanders and Biden:

"I think I would have made a better president than either one of them, that’s why I was running!"

When I spoke with @ewarren earlier today, she was defiant at the idea that she is obligated to support either Sanders or Biden.

"Why would I owe anybody an endorsement?" she said. "Is that a question they asked everybody else who dropped out of this race?"

I asked @ewarren how running for president had changed her.

"There’s just a hundred ways that I’m smarter and tougher now," she said.

.@ewarren said she will support the Democratic nominee "wholeheartedly," and called the plans she has left behind a "roadmap" for any Democrat (or Republican!) who wants it.

"I have an even clearer sense now of the world we could build," she said.

Building out her ideas in so much detail - which was a hallmark of her campaign - is part of what makes the loss sting, @ewarren told me.

"The pieces are far more real," she said. "It makes losing this chance to lead our government to make those changes far more painful."

NEW: My interview with @ewarren in her kitchen today. She spoke candidly about what went wrong and her disappointment with not breaking a new barrier for women.

“I’m disappointed," she said, "because I really thought we could do it.”

bit.ly/2PPzc6y

From my Warren interview: After she spent Wednesday making the decision to drop out, she did something she wouldn't have had much time for as a presidential candidate.

She and Bruce started watching "The Irishman." (They did not finish it) bit.ly/2PPzc6y