Could Democrat Elizabeth Warren beat Donald Trump in 2020 race that will no doubt turn nasty?
- The Democrat has stood out in the presidential race for her extraordinary focus on detailed plans to address the nation’s most pressing issues
- She has so far largely avoided directly attacking Donald Trump
Fresh off a debate performance that may have bolstered her standing in the 2020 Democratic race, Senator Elizabeth Warren returned to Massachusetts focused on strengthening her electability against US President Donald Trump.
Speaking at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention on Saturday, Warren said the Trump administration is “one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s modern history” and called on Democrats to unite toward a common goal: beat Trump in 2020.
Warren, a native of Oklahoma who’s represents her adopted home state of Massachusetts, where she taught at Harvard Law School, in the US Senate, has largely avoided directly attacking Trump or her Democratic competitors on the campaign trail.
The focus on electability went to answer a persistent question in the minds of Democratic officials and voters about the progressive senator’s candidacy: can she win a general election against Trump in a race that will no doubt be nasty?
Warren, 70, highlighted her electability argument by laying out policy proposals that she said will fix the problems that got Trump elected in the first place.
“This dark moment requires more than being ‘not Trump’, because a country that elects someone like Donald Trump is a country that’s already in serious trouble,” Warren said.