The Most Focused and Effective Democratic Messenger We Have Is Elizabeth Warren

The Most Focused and Effective Democratic Messenger We Have Is Elizabeth Warren
The senator from Massachusetts is delivering a well-developed and stinging critique of Republican extremism—and Ted Cruz’s whining.
By John Nichols

The campaigns of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are engaged in another tiresome argument over what will happen months from now, after primaries and caucuses identify a clear winner of the race for elected delegates to the Democratic National Convention.


In the meantime, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is busy shredding the candidacy of Ted Cruz and inviting everyone to recognize the absurdity of a Republican race in which conservative elites keep trying to position the hapless Texan as an alternative to the noxious prospect of Donald Trump.

Anticipating his overwhelming defeat in Tuesday’s New York Republican primary, Cruz started the week by offering his supporters a fine whine.

Pleading with “Team Cruz” to recognize the “significant sacrifice” he was making on their behalf, the senator from Texas complained in an e-mail, “There is almost no personal time when you run for president,” and griped that “Fighting morning and night for the future of our country ensures long nights and early mornings resulting in little to no sleep.”

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