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Warren leaves the presidential campaign 4:43
(CNN) - 100 years have passed since women have obtained the right to vote, which means that the conditions were perfect, in a sense of moral justice, to send a woman to the White House this year.
But it is unlikely to happen. (Yes, even though Hawaiian representative Tulsi Gabbard is still in the race.)
We still don't know who will be on the general election ballot in November, but we know that he will surely be one of the two white candidates, men over 70, who will face President Donald Trump, who is also a white man and 70 years old
From a historically diverse field, the two remaining Democrats are Joe Biden, a Catholic who personally opposes abortion rights, and Bernie Sanders, who tends to improve with male voters, according to exit polls.
- Elizabeth Warren ends her presidential campaign
One of those candidates will take the flag of a party that will certainly build their case in 2020 around the political priorities of progressive women, including access to medical care and abortion.
What happened? If most of the primary Democratic voters are women, why didn't a woman get better results than the third in any of the primaries so far? Warren even followed Biden and Sanders among the voters in his home state of Massachusetts. Why, according to the exit polls, did the voters not vote for the candidates?
Elizabeth Warren's perfect comments on sexism and politics
When Warren suspended his campaign at the entrance to his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was asked if sexism played a role in his failure as a presidential candidate. This is how she replied:
- Are there gender issues in this career?
You know, that is the trick question for all women. If you say, yes, there was sexism in this race, they all say "queudos". And if you say, no, there was no sexism, about a lot of women, they think: 'What planet do you live on?' ”
Warren added that he plans to address this issue in the future.
Americans say they feel comfortable with the candidates
Polls do not do much to explain what is happening here, as polls suggest that many fewer voters are comfortable with someone over 75 (Biden and Sanders) or someone who has had a heart attack in the last year (Sanders ).
When you look only at the Democratic primary voters, a majority said they would be completely excited about a candidate.
Comfortable with a woman on the ballot: In a February survey of NBC News / Wall Street Journal, 33% of Americans said they would be excited to have a woman competing and 51% said they would be comfortable with that. Only 9% said they would have some reservations and 5% said they would feel very uncomfortable.
More and more women in public office: The number of women in the Capitol and in the Senate continues to grow. About a quarter of the Congress and the Senate is made up of women. Nine of the 50 governors of the nation are women. So are 15 lieutenant governors, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics.
Bernie Sanders has a small advantage in Massachusetts 3:36Having a woman in the Oval Office is a priority. Not the highest priority
In a survey conducted in January, NBC News / WSJ asked voters what, on a scale of 1 to 10, was most important to them with their primary votes: defeat Trump, choose someone with great political ideas, choose a candidate who would continue with the Obama agenda or elect the first woman president.
73% gave Trump a 9 or 10 defeat. Only 21% said the same thing about electing the first president.
And we know since 2016 that Trump could beat Hillary Clinton. Voters who don't like it seem to have determined that that means they could beat any woman.
There are two lanes
While the polls suggest enthusiasm for (or at least comfort) with a candidate, the reality is this: the women did not vote that way for Warren or Amy Klobuchar. Other women who campaigned, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and Marianne Williamson, did not reach the primary.
The progressives chose Sanders. The moderates chose Biden
“You know, they told me at the beginning of this whole project that there are two lanes: a progressive lane for which Bernie Sanders is the owner, and a moderate lane for which Joe Biden is the owner, and there is no place for anyone else in this ”Said Warren on Thursday. "I thought that was not right, but obviously I was wrong."
That does not talk about the main policy differences. Sanders and Warren's policy proposals were almost carbon copies. In fact, you can track her decline in surveys directly to her inability to explain during a CNN debate how to pay the “Medicare for All” plan she borrowed from him. (That could be Mayor Pete Buttigieg's long-standing legacy in the career path, along with his decision to leave before Super Tuesday to clear the way for Biden.) Sanders, by the way, borrowed the idea of a wealth tax from her. He also lent him elements of a free child care program.
Debate in Nevada: the aspirants against Bloomberg 2:24The legacy of Warren 2020
The Warren 2020 campaign may be more remembered for the way it eliminated billionaire Michael Bloomberg, trampling his rise in the polls during a debate in Las Vegas with a line of fierce questions about the confidentiality agreements signed by former employees of his company. financial media and data Bloomberg LP.
That moment could have been evidence that she would cut Trump at a stage of debate in the general election. Instead, it cleared Biden's way.
It's been a long month since Trump's acquittal
It is hard to believe that it was only a month ago that Senate Republicans acquitted Trump in his trial of political trial. (Yes. It was February 5.) Meanwhile, the Democratic race has consolidated into two main candidates and the coronavirus has become a full-fledged global public health crisis that erases the political drama that came with the scandal. from Ukraine.
But it is clear that Republicans are preparing to recover their obsession for Ukraine in a big way. Reminder: Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, his potential rival in the 2020 general elections, were at the center of the president's impeachment trial. Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that Biden or his son, Hunter, acted corruptly in Ukraine.
If you wonder if Biden and Burisma's investigation of Senate Republicans is political, consider that he was suspended while Biden was reeling. Now that she could be the Democratic candidate, she has been resurrected.
Trump told Sean Hannity about Burisma on Fox News: “That will be an important issue in the campaign. I will mention it all the time, because I don't see any way out. I don't see in any way, for them, how they can answer those questions. ”
Why are we here?
The US government system has been challenged to deal with a singular president and a divided country that will decide if he should get another four years in the White House.
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