Elizabeth Warren should drop out

Only one progressive candidate has a real chance of winning and it’s not her.

Justin Ward
3 min readJan 14, 2020
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In the last 48 hours, the race for the Democratic nomination has turned ugly. A story came out on Sunday alleging that the Sanders campaign was quietly instructing its campaign staffers to go negative on his opponents even though this directly contradicts official policy as well as training instructions at every level. All sources were anonymous, and the leaked phone bank script couldn’t be independently verified as authentic.

Warren responded by saying she was “disappointed” that Sanders was having his volunteers “trash” her.

The next day, yet another story claimed that Sanders had supposedly told Warren in a private conversation that he didn’t think a woman could win the presidency. The Sanders campaign responded by saying this was an outright falsehood. They pointed out that Sanders personally encouraged Warren to run in 2016 and cited his long record of supporting women in politics.

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Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD