‘Why Elizabeth Warren Would Lose To Trump’

The Jimmy Dore Show published on Thursday, September 12, 2019 a discussion welcoming guest Katie Halper on why a nominee U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren would not unseat incumbent 45th U.S. president Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election.

I have reasons, before even watching this video, why I think Warren would not unseat Trump. They may be ones not on the minds of some people. But, I will share here.

Warren is not a leader.

In the early 2010s, while Barack Obama was in office as the nation’s 44th president, I would see Warren in interviews—including on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher—and she shined.

In 2016, Warren opted to not run for president of the United States. People wanted her to do that. I figured, at the time, she does not want to be president. That not every person in office wants to eventually become president.

I figured this because Warren signed a letter, circa 2014, encouraging Hillary Clinton to run for president. During 2016, while the primaries were in progress, Warren refrained from endorsing either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. People who follow politics knew damn well Warren is politically closer to Sanders. She waited for the primaries to end, with the last contest having played out, and then went on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program to endorse Hillary.

After the endorsement, and while the general election was in progress, Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter to do her best to out-tweet Trump on Twitter.

I think of Trump as the U.S.’s first troll president. A troll in the sense of an Internet troll. The Internet is our most immediate access to the world. And Trump knows this. A part of the campaign approach of Trump, and here we are in his third full year in office, is to consistently demand and command attention. And it has worked for Trump.

This brings me to remembering the approaches of Warren:

· She did not recognize that she needed to step up and run for president of the United States in 2016.

· She did not endorse a candidate for nomination while the Democratic presidential primaries were in progress in 2016.

· She may have—I don’t recall whether she succeeded—trumped Trump on Twitter in 2016.

I could list more reasons. But, sometimes three bullet points are enough examples. And it leads me to this conclusion: These actions do not come across as the makings of a future leader of the free world.