I’m just gonna cc: @daveweigel pic.twitter.com/oglwH14f0d
— Yashar Ali ?? (@yashar) December 29, 2018
I'm very happy that she announced. First, it's good that she's running, she is one of the good guys. Second, she is going to eat a lot of Sanders support and I'm very petty when it comes to Bernie Sanders.
— Tzippy Shmilovitz (@Tzipshmil) December 31, 2018
I’m selfish enough that I’d love to keep Warren as my own personal Senator, yet I’d be perfectly happy to see her in the Oval Office (and not just because we’d all be happy to see any Democrat in the Oval Office, considering the current squatter). But it’s not a small thing that every minute the Cosplay Socialists and their MAGAt playmates and the Media Horse-Race Touts spend attacking Warren — Pocahontas! Schoolmarm! Fumbling! SKREEEE! — is a minute they’re not targeting Kamala Harris / Kristen Gillibrand / Amy Klobuchar / Beto O’Rourke / AnyOtherDemocraticCandidate. I wasn’t 100% convinced about her potential candidacy until I attended one of her (many) town halls last fall; she’s damned impressive in person, and I suspect a lot of the Savvy Cultists are gonna be unpleasantly surprised at how many primary voters aren’t impressed by their ‘wisdom’ regarding her.
What I see as her greatest liability, right at this moment (apart from interference by foreign nationals, of course) is that Warren seems like she could lose the nomination and happily go back to her objectively pleasant life with no regrets. There’s a bias, among the media and it *seems* among the most committed primary/caucus voters, to assume that any candidate who won’t wake up suicidal the morning after their loss is a candidate who ‘just doesn’t care enough’. Which is, IMO, no doubt a good way to pick this year’s winners for The Voice or Dancing with the Stars, but a very bad way to pick one’s leaders…
Here is a tip — all of the stuff about Senator Professor Warren being “aloof” is based on her not stopping to give useless quotes outside the Senate chambers.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 31, 2018
Warren's 2020 launch video is genuinely interesting because it offers Dems something they have not nominated in ages: A nominee who identifies specific sources of trouble and will fight them, instead of suggesting that a good politician can get everyone to work together.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 31, 2018
Anecdotally I do still find a lot of Dem primary voters worrying that a "divisive" nominee can't win, so clearly there's some partisan asymmetry here. GOP voters seem to be all in on the "own the libs" strategy.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 31, 2018
Something you don’t see every day: on Warren’s campaign website, under the email sign-up (“I’m all in”), there’s another option: “Actually, I’m not in, and here’s why.” Links to, basically, a feedback page. pic.twitter.com/QD94Twl8pK
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) December 31, 2018
Elizabeth Warren outside of her home says since announcing the creation of an exploratory committee this morning she has received donations from all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico
— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) December 31, 2018
Asked if super PACs should have role in this race, Warren says: "I don’t think we ought to be running campaigns that are funded by billionaires, whether it goes through super PACs or their own money that they’re spending."
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) December 31, 2018
Warren betting on an avalanche of small-dollar online donations by announcing today, an otherwise huge fundraising day in the advocacy world. Will be interesting to see what that total number is and how early in the day they can tout an impressive one.
— laura olin (@lauraolin) December 31, 2018
This bears mentioning in an even larger context – whatever Trump says about ANY candidate will automatically take that critique off the table. The guy is so loathed that "you are parroting Donald Trump's talking points" will be an effective push back every time. https://t.co/AOaEh3Vjt8
— Thomas C. Bowen (@thomascbowen) December 31, 2018
We can start by treating women as candidates for president, not homecoming queen. https://t.co/Qlwszu6Os0
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) January 1, 2019
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