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The Hill: 5 reasons the Left doesn’t believe Warren
5 reasons the left doesn’t believe Warren
1/17/2015
Here are five reasons the left hears “yes” when Warren says “no.”
1.) She hasn't definitively ruled out a presidential run.
"Every candidate says they're not running before deciding to run," said Erica Sagrans, campaign director at Ready For Warren.
..."Things change fast in politics, and Warren hasn't ruled anything out," Sagrans said.
..."Warren is wisely hedging her bets. She is underselling herself politically by saying, 'No,' which is intriguing to the base but she is leaving room to potentially over-deliver publicly should the circumstances merit her jumping into the 2016 fray," said Ford O'Connell, a GOP strategist.
2.) She's distancing herself from President Obama.
Warren flexed her political muscle during the budget negotiations late last year and spearheaded a successful revolt against an Obama nominee to the Treasury Department with ties to Wall Street.
Her attention-grabbing moves come at a time when Democrats are fiercely debating whether to move to the middle on economic issues or shift to the left....
3.) She hasn't ordered the grass roots groups to shut it down.
,,,"We're not running this campaign because of some sort of parsing of her speech," said Nick Berning, MoveOn.org communications director. "We take her at her word. We're running the campaign because we think our country will be better off if she enters the race."
"Elizabeth Warren has always been a reluctant politician, but she has always listened to her supporters," Sagrans said.
Sagrans noted that in Warren's book, the senator wrote that she was persuaded to challenge then-Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) during the 2012 Senate race after one of her supporters urged her to get in....
4.) Her promotional tour didn’t end after the midterms.
Warren campaigned heavily during the 2014 midterm election campaign, hitting the trail in states like Iowa, Kentucky and West Virginia. While she campaigned for these candidates, it also seems to have fueled national interest in her own political career...
5.) She's remained tight-lipped about Hillary Clinton.
It seems that virtually every prominent Democratic politician is being asked about Clinton ahead of 2016. While Warren did join each of the female Democratic senators in the last Congress in signing a letter urging Clinton to run, she has not openly endorsed her probable candidacy.
In an interview with The Washington Post in June, Warren declined an opportunity to defend Clinton after she said in an ABC News interview that she and former President Bill Clinton were "dead broke" after leaving the White House.
The Post reported that Warren paused for "a full 19 seconds" because answering: "Uh, I was surprised."
"There is no question about Warren is mulling a run and she has the dynastic Team Hillary unnerved," said O'Connell, the GOP strategist.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/229840-five-reasons-the-left-doesnt-believe-elizabeth-warren
1/17/2015
Here are five reasons the left hears “yes” when Warren says “no.”
1.) She hasn't definitively ruled out a presidential run.
"Every candidate says they're not running before deciding to run," said Erica Sagrans, campaign director at Ready For Warren.
..."Things change fast in politics, and Warren hasn't ruled anything out," Sagrans said.
..."Warren is wisely hedging her bets. She is underselling herself politically by saying, 'No,' which is intriguing to the base but she is leaving room to potentially over-deliver publicly should the circumstances merit her jumping into the 2016 fray," said Ford O'Connell, a GOP strategist.
2.) She's distancing herself from President Obama.
Warren flexed her political muscle during the budget negotiations late last year and spearheaded a successful revolt against an Obama nominee to the Treasury Department with ties to Wall Street.
Her attention-grabbing moves come at a time when Democrats are fiercely debating whether to move to the middle on economic issues or shift to the left....
3.) She hasn't ordered the grass roots groups to shut it down.
,,,"We're not running this campaign because of some sort of parsing of her speech," said Nick Berning, MoveOn.org communications director. "We take her at her word. We're running the campaign because we think our country will be better off if she enters the race."
"Elizabeth Warren has always been a reluctant politician, but she has always listened to her supporters," Sagrans said.
Sagrans noted that in Warren's book, the senator wrote that she was persuaded to challenge then-Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) during the 2012 Senate race after one of her supporters urged her to get in....
4.) Her promotional tour didn’t end after the midterms.
Warren campaigned heavily during the 2014 midterm election campaign, hitting the trail in states like Iowa, Kentucky and West Virginia. While she campaigned for these candidates, it also seems to have fueled national interest in her own political career...
5.) She's remained tight-lipped about Hillary Clinton.
It seems that virtually every prominent Democratic politician is being asked about Clinton ahead of 2016. While Warren did join each of the female Democratic senators in the last Congress in signing a letter urging Clinton to run, she has not openly endorsed her probable candidacy.
In an interview with The Washington Post in June, Warren declined an opportunity to defend Clinton after she said in an ABC News interview that she and former President Bill Clinton were "dead broke" after leaving the White House.
The Post reported that Warren paused for "a full 19 seconds" because answering: "Uh, I was surprised."
"There is no question about Warren is mulling a run and she has the dynastic Team Hillary unnerved," said O'Connell, the GOP strategist.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/229840-five-reasons-the-left-doesnt-believe-elizabeth-warren
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