Elizabeth Warren Woos Women to Turn Around Her Campaign

[brooklynite]

Bloomberg

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, who has seen her national lead dwindle on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, is turning back to a bloc of voters she once appeared to have locked up: Women.

She’s putting high-profile women surrogates and activists on the front lines of her campaign in Iowa, giving interviews to fashion magazines and trying to broaden her coalition beyond the white, educated progressives who form the backbone of her support.

The moves show an attempt to restore the bridge-building formulation that put her neck-and-neck with front-runner Joe Biden just three months ago. Since then, she’s lost her advantage among women, traded older voters for less reliable younger ones and failed to make inroads among minority voters.

Warren still leads among Democrats who call themselves “very liberal,” even surpassing the self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders by 9 percentage points in one recent Quinnipiac Poll. She has less support across the political spectrum, trailing Biden by 29 points among moderates.