'Building support and rising': 2020 Democrat Elizabeth Warren surges on far-left agenda

[sheshe2]

Her jump from fifth to third place was recorded in three national surveys released this week. The biggest surge for Ms. Warren was in a Quinnipiac University poll in which she received 12% support, up 8 percentage points from the same poll a month earlier.

In all three polls, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden led the race, with Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont a distant second.

Ms. Warren’s rise was less dramatic in the other two polls. She advanced roughly 2 percentage points in the Morning Consult and the CNN polls, but it was enough to jump into third place with 9% and 8%, respectively.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/2/elizabeth-warren-2020-democrat-surges-far-left-age/

MSNBC is talking about her surge! I have met her and listened to her speak. She is a petite woman that speaks with a roar. She is bright and articulate and has some great, well thought out plans to bring us forward. She persisted, you bet she did, and will continue to do so.

MA is very proud of our Senior Senator, she is a true progressive

That is my Senator.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. I've been in Harris' camp from the beginning, but Warren is making that decision really hard!!

She's phenomenal, and a few more weeks like the last few for her and I just may need to make the switch!!

We really have an embarrassment of riches on our side.

[sheshe2]

2. I know.

I am torn as well. So many exciting candidates.

Truth, BC.

We really have an embarrassment of riches on our side.

[EarnestPutz]

54. Bleacher, you took the words out of my mouth. I love Kamala Harris because she would be....

.....an awesome candidate. Her laugh and sense of humor would light up the
campaign trail. But Warren really has the goods on the issues. Pete is the
smartest of the bunch, and Inslee has the bona fides on the most important
issue of our time. Embarrassment of riches indeed. Color me happy.

[Bleacher Creature]

62. Have you ever seen this video?

I don't know why, but I find it so endearing and a perfect example of her enthusiasm and optimism.

[EarnestPutz]

64. Color me even happier. She is the real deal. Endearing is....

...absolutely the the right word. Thanks, you made my day.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

67. Real deal indeed!! Go Elizabeth!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[Beatleman]

3. Can she run the long haul?

has many good points

[sheshe2]

4. I think she can.

[NurseJackie]

56. President Warren...

... I could get used to saying that.

[sheshe2]

73. Me too!

[BeckyDem]

5. It is not far left policy...good grief the way they frame this is so obvious.

You go Warren!

[sheshe2]

7. Thanks, BeckyDem.

[BeckyDem]

8. Back at ya, sheshe!

Warren is knocking their socks off because the country is hungry for these policies. They are FAIR, they represent the future.

I love what she is accomplishing, although I am not surprised.

[sheshe2]

16. I will fight for whoever wins the top slot.

However she is a favorite of mine. She has served MA well as our Senior Senator.

[BeckyDem]

27. Of course, Trump and the GOP are pure evil.

But I want Warren, she will be transformative.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. Thank you. I was going to RANT about the wording also.

[BeckyDem]

35. Yep, I was like, what?

[NYMinute]

6. Senator Warren is one of my favorites

since she curtly said that she is not a socialist.

[sheshe2]

10. She also told someone, when asked a question in Iowa...

When asked a question of other candidates and where she disagreed, she said she was not there to attack fellow Democrats.

[JonLP24]

12. There is nothing wrong with Democratic Socialism

Some great people throughout history have been Democratic Socialists.

[NYMinute]

20. ...

[JonLP24]

22. It reminds me of a reply I got from a conservative for agreeing with AOC on the VA

Speaking at a staff retreat of the SCLC in 1966, King said that “something is wrong … with capitalism” and “there must be a better distribution of wealth” in the country. “Maybe,” he suggested, “America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

http://inthesetimes.com/article/20839/martin-luther-king-jr-day-socialism-capitalism

Firstly, George Orwell was definitely a democratic socialist. ... In fact, socialism as Orwell understood it, stood for all the values – democracy, liberty, equality – that Soviet Communism rejected. Orwell believed that only a truly democratic Socialist regime would support liberty.

https://www.biographyonline.net/socialism-george-orwell/

[NYMinute]

24. Neither of them ever ran for or won an election.

Preaching and book-writing are far far different from politics.

[JonLP24]

31. There is Jeremy Corbyn who is the odds on favorite for 2022

[NYMinute]

42. Jeremy Corbyn

won't even remain the leader of the Labour party. He is universally hated.

[JonLP24]

45. I think Tony Blair is still universally hated

I follow a lot of Labour Party people they all seem to hate Tories and defend Jeremy Corbyn. There is a lot of calling out of Islamaphobia in the conservative parties including calling out support for the Saudi Arabia regime. They have a lot of similar issues and they seem to be on the same side of Progressives on the issues which they seem to care more about than our left party members.

All I know is he took a Labour Party from dead in the water and out performed expectations while surviving challenges to his leadership.

[George II]

9. She's in my top five ("top five"? sounds crazy saying that, huh?)

[sheshe2]

11. IKR!?

I have a top five or six myself. I will back anyone of them, George.

Thank you~

[underthematrix]

28. Same here. She's my number two.

I love her #JustTwoCents policy to pay for universal child care, two years of college, etc.

[pdsimdars]

13. I am so glad to see it finally moving.

[sheshe2]

14. MSNBC was talking about her surge this afternoon.

They said in a National poll she is number2!

[NurseJackie]

15. She's very impressive.

[sheshe2]

17. She is, NurseJackie.

PS...I really like Pete as well.

[jalan48]

18. Pelosi says we need to not drift too far left in the next election.

Ms. Pelosi — the de facto head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected in 2020 — offered Democrats her “coldblooded” plan for decisively ridding themselves of Mr. Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted impeachment bid that will ultimately get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018 by drifting too far to the left. “Own the center left, own the mainstream,” Ms. Pelosi, 79, said.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287105985

[saidsimplesimon]

26. When Nancy Peosi speaks, I listen.

She has a proven track record of delivering elections.

"Own the center left, own the mainstream"

[jalan48]

29. Her comments don't echo the enthusiasm we are seeing for Warren here. Which way will the Party

go in 2020? It will be an interesting 18 months.

[Johnyawl]

43. We need to define "center left"...

...and do it loud and forcibly, because you know that tRump and the republicans will call everything we propose as "FAR LEFT!!!!!!!"

[jalan48]

46. I agree. Warren will definitely be labeled far/extreme left by Fox and then that will be echoed

by the other corporate news outlets. Let's face it-corporations are not interested in promoting candidates that want to tax and regulate them more.

[hedda_foil]

68. I guess you haven't noticed, but they'll call whoever the nominee is a socialist. It's a given.

[jalan48]

75. I wonder why Pelosi said this?

[George II]

49. Very wise advice.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. 2016's far left is 2019's mainstream policy positions

It's the centrists who are moving to the right to the positions (not including social issues) that used to be held by average Conservatives, 30-40 years ago.

[George II]

50. No they aren't.

[betsuni]

21. K&R

[brer cat]

23. She is coming on strong!

We have some very exciting candidates.

[sheshe2]

37. Yes we do.

I am...

[Cha]

25. Thanks, she!

[sheshe2]

38. Thanks, Cha!

[Evolve Dammit]

30. If Bernie or Hillary had teamed up with Liz, they'd be in the White House

[Lunabell]

32. I love Warren's ideas.

But she's about as interesting as cardboard when she speaks. She needs a fire in her belly.

[sheshe2]

40. Wow.

Fire in her belly.

Guess you never saw Warren speak or have even met my Senator. I have.

[Lunabell]

69. I've seen her speak.

She's no orator.

[sunflowerseed]

33. Isn't it "Mrs" Warren?

?? WTF

[tblue37]

36. K&R for visibility. nt

[yaesu]

39. Only very progressive candidates are on my short primary list & she is one. nt

[Cary]

41. K&R

[sheshe2]

48. Thank you, Cary!

I have a preference right now. However....

In the end I will vote Democratic. PERIOD! I won't whine or cry or hold my nose. I will vote for the Democratic candidate.

[Cary]

65. No argument from me

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. "Far left"? Of course the Washington Times would say something that dumb.

[sheshe2]

47. Agree.

She is far from far left. They just want to paint that picture.

Fact is she is rising and they want to scare peeps by saying her policies are far left.

[airplaneman]

51. I'm with her n/t.

[YOHABLO]

52. No one would ever imagine a woman team for President and Vice President. I do.

[blur256]

53. Warren is definitely

Coming up in my list of candidates. My wife prefers her. And I can see why. I know there are not a lot of millennial s here but I guess we are? Still not sure where we fit in because we were born in 81 and 82. But let me tell you, our student loan debt is crippling. Between the 2 of us we make about 80 per year. First of all she is a minister so there is that. But I also am working for way under what I am worth, not but choice bit thats whay I could find. We literally cannot afford our loans. We are both working to get out of default, buy even if we do, then what? We are stuck with 500 dollar payments per month that we really can't afford? Per person? How does anyone in my generation get ahead? We can't. If someone would help erase loan debt we could buy a house. Get better jobs. Hopefully live like out parents did. It's so damb infuriating.

[shanny]

55. "Far left"...according to the Washington Times.

I love the smell of flop sweat in the morning.

[ehrnst]

57. She's pulled to the left of him on tuition reform. (nt)

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[sheshe2]

63. That she has, ehrnst.

She is inspiring, uplifting and bold.

[Chin music]

58. Warren/Harris

Clinton for Supreme Court.

[blm]

59. MoonieTimes propagandizes sensible policies as"far left agenda"

Because that is what Rightwing propaganda media does.

[still_one]

60. Thanks sheshe

[sheshe2]

74. Thank you, still_one!

[AJT]

61. Ahhh, the Washington Times trying to brand her as

"far left". This is an attack peice, not a compliment. They are going to try to paint her as a radical.

[crazytown]

66. 'I am capitalist to my bones'

but ‘capitalism without rules is theft’.

The difference between Warren and Sanders is that Elizabeth wants to reform capitalism, not replace it.

[Hortensis]

70. :) Yes. Huge difference. Difference between

A proven means of securing national prosperity while protecting personal freedoms.— when properly controlled.

Versus try-try-again in the kind of extreme ideological experiment that has failed in every nation that has attempted it, and stripped people of rights and freedoms important to them in the process.

[crazytown]

71. WWII

Government can take control of industry and curtail freedoms for a short period of of time, but by 1945, even with the war still in progress, the strain was showing. By 1946 people wanted the shackles off, and made the mistake of electing the 'do nothing’ Republican Congress.

Government ownership and control of industry, including service industries is ‘unAmerican’. I don’t use that word very often, but in this case it fits.

[Humanist_Activist]

80. Actually I find her policy positions to have the potential to overthrow the system more than his...

he's too vague on too much and is more a Social Democrat than a Democratic Socialist. Her ideas on a wealth tax, a tax on reported profits in companies, and requiring companies to have worker representatives on their boards seems much further left than Sanders is. I think she's smart enough to claim capitalism while undermining it from within.

[crazytown]

81. Warren's model is Germany, which puts 40% of wotkers

on Corporate boards. Rather than crippling the businesses, it makes and the economic system, more successful.

[mcar]

72. K&R

[Bayard]

76. I love Elizabeth's passion

It is an honor to have one of my goats named after her. I have Lizzy, along with Mazie, Claire, and baby Kami (Kamala).

[Gothmog]

77. I donated to Senator Warren back in March and I like her a great deal

[Skidmore]

78. k& r nt

[sheshe2]

79. Thank you!

[murielm99]

82. K&R