Elizabeth Warren drops out of presidential race
Source: Los Angeles Times
Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race Thursday after failing to unite the Democratic Party’s left and right flanks behind her progressive policy agenda, the latest shakeup in a fast-moving battle for the 2020 nomination.
Warren said she was not ready to endorse either of the two remaining major candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden or Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
“Let’s take a deep breath and take a little time with that,” she said outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. “We don’t have to decide at this minute.”
She is the fifth Democrat to bow out in the last week, and her departure leaves the field, which started with six women running for president, with just two white male front-runners.
Asked if she believed gender was a factor in her repeated losses, Warren called it a “trap question for every woman” in politics.
“If you say, ‘Yeah, there was sexism in this race,’ everyone says, ‘Whiner!’” she said. “And if you say, ‘No, there was no sexism,’ about a bazillion women think, ‘What planet do you live on?’“
Reflecting on why she thought her campaign did not end up garnering more support — she failed to win any of the first 18 states to hold primaries or caucuses, including her home state — Warren said she found no political opening between the established candidates of the party’s left and center.
Click here to read the full article published by Los Angeles Times on 5 March 2020.
Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race Thursday after failing to unite the Democratic Party’s left and right flanks behind her progressive policy agenda, the latest shakeup in a fast-moving battle for the 2020 nomination.
Warren said she was not ready to endorse either of the two remaining major candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden or Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
“Let’s take a deep breath and take a little time with that,” she said outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. “We don’t have to decide at this minute.”
She is the fifth Democrat to bow out in the last week, and her departure leaves the field, which started with six women running for president, with just two white male front-runners.
Asked if she believed gender was a factor in her repeated losses, Warren called it a “trap question for every woman” in politics.
“If you say, ‘Yeah, there was sexism in this race,’ everyone says, ‘Whiner!’” she said. “And if you say, ‘No, there was no sexism,’ about a bazillion women think, ‘What planet do you live on?’“
Reflecting on why she thought her campaign did not end up garnering more support — she failed to win any of the first 18 states to hold primaries or caucuses, including her home state — Warren said she found no political opening between the established candidates of the party’s left and center.
Click here to read the full article published by Los Angeles Times on 5 March 2020.