Elizabeth Warren no more in the presidential race
Elizabeth Warren decided to quit the presidential race
The American
media has reported that Democratic Party nomination candidate Senator Elizabeth
Warren has decided to quit the presidential race after failing to win a single
state including her home state Massachusetts. She finished third in Massachusetts
behind Biden and Bernie.
It is not
yet clear whether she will extend her support to Democratic Socialist candidate
Bernie Sanders or former vice president Joe Biden. She also has the option to
remain neutral and let her supporters to decide their candidate. She will
announce her decision in this regard in next couple of hours.
If she decided
to endorse Bernie Sanders then the contest between Sanders and Biden will
become much closer and exciting. Even though-she failed to win any state
primary so far but she got enough votes in many states to deny Bernie Sanders a
clear majority. She was accused by Bernie supporters to split the progressive
and liberal reformist voters in first 17 state primaries.
Her decision
to drop out of the presidential race will make it a one to one contest between
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders to become the presidential candidate of Democratic
Party against incumbent republican president Trump in November 2020.
She was seen
many as the leading progressive and centre left candidate before the surge of
Bernie Sanders who became frontrunner in the race. The majority of progressive
voters decisively went over to Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders in last few
months. She remained as frontrunner along with Joe Biden in the early phase of
campaign.
She tried to
bring both the left and right wing voters of Democratic Party behind her reformist
agenda. She tried to take a middle ground in the attempt to win over both left
and right voters. She failed in her attempt to bridge the gap between two
polarised camps.
Many of her
supporters will find Sanders closers to their agenda and ideas. Warren’s campaign agenda skewed closer to
Sanders’ call for revolutionary change, many of her older, suburban supporters
may be more comfortable with Biden’s calls for more traditional Democratic
reforms. So the political impact on the campaign may be muted.
A powerful
voice in progressive politics even before she was elected to the Senate in
2012, Warren had courted mainstream Democrats with an impassioned plea for “big
structural change.” She offered detailed policy plans backed by a fervent
promise to fight for them without apology.
But the
soaring cost of her ambitious plans, especially her proposal to provide free
universal healthcare and eliminate private medical insurance, led to growing
concerns from establishment Democrats that President Trump and his allies would
portray the former Harvard bankruptcy law professor as radical.
Bernie Sanders,
who avoided explaining how he would pay for universal healthcare, was the
beneficiary of Warren’s stumbles, overtaking her as the leading progressive
candidate in the field.
But when she
finished third in the Iowa caucuses, her coalition split, undermining her
argument that she could unify the fractured party to beat Trump next fall. She
lost badly in her neighboring state, New Hampshire, and the contests that
followed. The final blow came on Super Tuesday, when she failed to win any of
the 14 states, including Massachusetts.
Warren, 70,
came to politics late in life. But she attracted widespread notice among
Democrats when she designed a consumer financial protection agency for
President Obama after the 2007-09 financial crisis and Great Recession.
While
Sanders described himself as a democratic socialist, Warren called her
“capitalist down to my bones” and said she wants to change the economy to make
it function more fairly and efficiently for millions of Americans.
Her
departure from the race will disappoint all those voters who want see first female
president in U.S.A. But they have to wait until 2024 to see another potential
female candidate to challenge the men dominated politics.
Khalid Bhatti
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