Warren is killing it on Morning Joe

[karynnj]

11. I agree and add it is NOT in her interest to do so - it is a good idea only as a long shot

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At this point, she is one of three people most likely to become the nominee. As such, she needs to be seen speaking about the good things she will do as President. Appearing positive, exuding energy and sending out calls for people to join her will make her stronger. Obviously, she must answer attacks made on her because to not to that would make her seem weak. Even then, her responses are better when she leads from her strength - facts, intelligence and a clear clarification.

However, Biden has not attacked her, nor have any of his prominent endorsers. At this moment, foreign policy is a big issue and the contrast should be between the rational Obama administration and the chaos of Trump. While Biden was an important member of that administration, any Democratic candidate - including possibly Sanders - will in the general election want to speak of the deep foreign policy bench - many from the Obama administration - who they will call on to take on the challenge of restoring the US on the international stage.

Warren is very uniquely positioned. I think the media for the most part misses that as they create their narrative of "lanes" which helps them simplify the complex choices many voters make. She has the potential to gain many undecided Clinton voters, while also gaining some undecided Sanders 2016 voters. That is probably more likely if she is not seen as attacking either Biden or Sanders.

Thinking of many past primaries, consider how both Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt, the two leading candidates in Iowa a month out before Iowa, both imploded after getting into a series of negative attacks on each other. I think both would still have lost to John Kerry as more people saw and heard him, unless one of them would have so quickly become the frontrunner that he had no chance at being heard.

More than in 2004, there are many of us that want to see a unified, positive Democratic party making a case for leaving the world of chaos where everything can turn on its head with a thoughtless tweet and which is focused on repairing our place in the world, leading the country, the businesses and the world to work against climate change, to repair the holes carved in the social network - including fixing health care availability. The primaries always focus on the relatively narrow differences, but care needs to be taken to point out how unified all the candidates are on basic goals, differing on the way to achieve them.