Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumWarren dismisses need to win New Hampshire: 'It's going to be a long campaign'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) dismissed the need to place in the top two in Tuesdays New Hampshire primaries after trailing in third coming out of last weeks Iowa caucuses.
The way I see this is it's going to be a long campaign, Warren said Sunday on ABCs This Week.
Host George Stephanopoulos noted that no candidate has ever won the nomination without placing in the top two in Iowa or New Hampshire. Warren pointed to her decision to campaign not only in the early states but across the country as she builds a campaign to go the distance.
When I made the decision not to spend 70 percent of my time raising money from billionaires and corporate executive and lobbyists, it meant I had a lot more time to go around the country, she said. I've been to 31 states to do town halls, red states and blue states. We have about 1,000 people on the ground. We built a campaign to go the distance and that's what I think is going to happen.
Warren is in third place, at 13 percent, in New Hampshire, according to a new WBZ-Boston Globe-Suffolk University poll released Sunday. She trails Sanders and Buttigieg who are in a statistical tie for first at 24 percent and 22 percent, respectively, based on the poll.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482220-warren-dismisses-need-to-win-new-hampshire-its-going-to-be-a-long-campaign
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,767 posts)not all that this country represents.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Like it always does as these things progress.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Retrograde
(10,163 posts)It's time to break the MSM narrative that the candidates people in Iowa and New Hampshire like are the same ones that people in the rest of the country want. I'm sure they're nice people in these states, and they're entitled to their opinions, but the other 90+% of the population might not necessarily agree.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)It's a bullshit narrative.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)It's not about winning *both* IA and NH.
The fact is that no candidate from either party, in the last 40 years, has won the nomination without winning *either* IA or NH, except for Clinton in '92. Every other nominee over the last 40 years - from either party - has won *either* IA or NH. And, as I keep explaining, '92 isn't really much of an exception. Because IA was essentially nullified that year, and because Clinton's strong showing in NH (2nd behind Tsongas of MA) and the resulting "comeback kid" narrative is precisely what propelled Clinton forward. Clinton was finishing top 3 in nearly every contest leading up to Super Tuesday.
Pointing to '92 as evidence that Biden isn't in trouble is backfiring on you and others. You're inadvertently making the exact opposite case that you want to be making.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided