Elizabeth Warren’s Secret Weapon: She’s All In As a Democrat

Not exactly two peas in a pod. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call It’s no secret that Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren pull from the same base. They are Senate allies and friends, and have conspicuously refused to criticize each other on the 2020 presidential campaign trail. They are both scourges of Wall Street and inveterate critics of what some progressives love to call corporate Democrats, have close ties to the labor movement, and are calling for a pretty significant break from bipartisan foreign policy and national security conventions. So for voters trying to choose between these two New England progressives — and for other Democratic primary voters who may eventually be driven toward either or both of them — the differences between them are sometimes subtle and implicit rather than obvious and explicit. Aside from the obvious difference in gender, and a relatively small but perhaps significant difference in age (both are over 70, but only Sanders would turn 80 in a first term as president), they have stylistic differences that affect the nature of the coalitions they are assembling for 2020. Bernie with his fiery, no-compromise approach famously does well among under-30 voters, and is doing better than… Read full this story

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