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What Warren Wants
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is withholding her endorsement for president. Is there a lesson here?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be gone from the field of those running for president, but she isn’t forgotten.
Nor has she forgotten the “Bernie Bros” she credits with most of the vitriol directed at her during the campaign, both online and in real-life. Bernie Sanders, Warren maintains, is responsible for the actions of his progressive supporters.
This is likely one of the reasons Warren has yet to direct her endorsement towards any of the remaining candidates in the race; not even in the name of defeating Donald Trump. It isn’t that difficult to understand why Warren may be feeling a bit of justified anger.
Not just on her own behalf, but on behalf of the other female lawmakers and college professors who will come after her; that they, like Warren, will have to work twice as hard to get half as far.
Sexism alone may not have killed the once-promising Warren campaign, but sexism played a part in its demise.
It is the same thing that has Rep. Tulsi Gabbard publicly appealing to the remaining Democratic men in the race to use their clout with party leadership to please get her into the next debate.