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1/ It Really Could Be Warren
After her swing and miss at the presidency, the Massachusetts senator is making a case for herself as Joe Biden’s vice president. Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE @IsaacDovere via @TheAtlantic ,
“The lesson for many…

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 2/ …Democrats from 2016 is obvious: If you don’t give young people something to be excited about and you don’t give progressives a sense of being heard, --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- your candidate will end up hiking in the woods...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 3/ ... while Donald Trump goes to sleep in the White House.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 4/ --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --Biden has consistently struggled to attract younger voters and much trust from progressives; with the exception of the few hours leading up to his Super Tuesday romp, he hasn’t generated much excitement....

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 5/ ...With the coalition she built, Warren would seem to be able to help build enthusiasm—Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --though, as a number of Democratic operatives pointed out to me, it hurts her case quite a bit that when the time came to vote,...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 6/ ... younger and progressive voters went overwhelmingly4Bernie Sanders.--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- A group of particularlyNoisy Sanders supporters have helped inculcate the ideaThat Warren is a traitor to the left wing Democratic Party....

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 7/ ...They’re frustrated that she ran at all, arguing that she divided the left.--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- They blame her for a leak about a...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 8/ ... private conversation Sanders and Warren had in which, she claimed, he said that a woman couldn’t beat Trump. --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- And they’re furious that she didn’t endorse him after she dropped out—or back in 2016.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 9/ “If she’d endorsed Bernie in 2020,--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- she’d have more legitimacy,” a former Sanders-campaign official told me. If the goal is to bring the Sanders wing in, “she’s not a unifying figure.”

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 10/ But Sanders --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- isn’t going to be Biden’s running mate.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic 11/ Warren is the option who progressives, --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- by a wide margin, say would make them more likely to vote for Biden, according to Sean McElwee @SeanMcElwee , a liberal pollster with Data for Progress.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 12/ She[Warren] also tops the list for Democrats overall; --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- in a May CBS poll, 36 percent of Democrats picked her, compared with 19 percent for Senator Kamala Harris, the second-most-popular choice....

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 13/ ... Polls of members of the Sanders-inspired groups Our Revolution and MoveOn show Warren as their top choice for Biden’s running mate, and it’s not even close: --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 14/ ... 62 percent of Our Revolution members picked Warren in an April email survey, followed by 22 percent for Stacey Abrams, --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- 8 percent for Harris, 5 percent for Klobuchar, and...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 15/ ... 3 percent for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- Focus groups of younger voters conducted in recent weeks for NextGen America found that she was the name that came up most often as a running-mate choice.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 16/ McElwee @SeanMcElwee thinks Warren is probably Biden’s best chance to connect with progressives. --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 17/ --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- “The sentiment among people who supported Bernie who really want to see his agenda implemented, they think Elizabeth Warren is the best way to make that happen,” he[McElwee @SeanMcElwee] said.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 18/ For the people who supported Bernie for the sake of owning the wine moms,--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- they’re probably not happy. But who gives a shit?”

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 19/ Among those still disappointed and frustrated that Warren didn’t endorse Sanders is Sanders himself. --Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 20/ ...“Several people who have spoken with him told me he[Bernie} would have backed her[Warren] if she’d been the one to emerge against Biden at the end of the primaries,--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 21/ ... and if she[Warren] had backed him[Bernie],--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -- he[Bernie] might be pushing for her[Warren] in the conversations he’s[Bernie's] had with Biden about building unity. But he’s not, at least so far.

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 22/ Representative Ro Khanna of California, who was a national co-chair of Sanders’s campaign, is more enthusiastic about the prospect of a Warren vice presidency.--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere --“...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 23/ ... “It’s a slam dunk for progressives that she should be vice president,” he[Representative Ro Khanna] told me.--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere - ...

@IsaacDovere @TheAtlantic @SeanMcElwee 24/ ...As for the reservations other Sanders supporters have, [Representative Ro Khanna] told me “There would be a lot of people who would come [based] on the policy. Warren’s policies overlap 90 percent.”--Per bit.ly/2WKsti9 #BidenWarren by @IsaacDovere -

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