Elizabeth Warren: Forgotten, But Not Gone

Wrap your heads around this, Massachusetts Democrats: Your superstar U.S. senator and renowned national champion of progressive populism is currently losing the 2020 POTUS race to an unknown 37-year-old Indiana mayor with no national base and an unpronounceable name.

And he’s got a husband. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

Yesterday, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend announced that, despite governing a city the size of Lowell,  he’s already raised $7 million — and counting. “We (you) are out-performing expectations at every turn,” Buttigieg said when he tweeted out the news.

When was the last time anyone used the “O”-word to describe the Warren campaign?
The same day Mayor Pete was announcing his cash windfall, the Warren campaign was answering questions about their own finance director fleeing the scene. The New York Times broke the story with the headline: “Elizabeth Warren Loses Finance Director as She Struggles in Early Fund-Raising.”

That’s not the only place she’s struggling. In the new Emerson College poll of Iowa caucus-goers, Mayor Pete is in third place at 11 percent and Liz Warren’s in fifth (9 percent.) Five years ago, Warren was a national political celebrity being recruited by MoveOn.org to get into the 2016 presidential race. Five years ago, Mayor Pete was a small-city mayor and couldn’t get recognized in a police line-up.