Elizabeth Warren backers lukewarm on Joe Biden

[99th_Monkey]

Elizabeth Warren backers lukewarm on Joe Biden
Leaders of “Run Warren Run” say most of their members are already happy with Sanders.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere & Gabriel Debenedetti * 8/24/15 * Politico

Joe Biden is no Elizabeth Warren.

That’s the message being sent by former leaders and foot soldiers of the draft Warren movement after the vice president met privately with the Massachusetts senator on Saturday, in preparation for a possible presidential run.

Unlike Warren or Bernie Sanders, the Vermont progressive who’s assumed the support of many Warren backers, Biden is a pillar of the Democratic establishment, vice president in an administration that many progressives consider too centrist. That puts him in roughly the same position as Hillary Clinton: liberal on many issues, but a traditional party loyalist at the end of the day.

“He enters the race in the same place she is,” said Charles Chamberlain, president of Democracy for America, which helped operate the pro-Warren grass roots group Run Warren Run.

That’s a considerable problem because Biden, to be successful, would need to appeal to a large majority of progressives who are disenchanted with Clinton, while persuading them that he’s a better vehicle for their beliefs than Sanders, who’s been drawing huge crowds and gaining on Clinton all summer.

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. At the end of the day, Joe is simply a more likeable Hillary.

And only stands to take away support from her, not from Sanders, which is why I welcome him into the race to split the Establishment vote.