A lot of progressive groups (and voters) have held off on making the Sanders-vs.-Warren choice. But they’ll face more and more pressure to decide how best to block Biden.
Even before the Working Families Party endorsed Elizabeth Warren, the labor-left organization that advocates for a more progressive Democratic politics had endorsed Elizabeth Warren. While the WFP’s decision to back the senator from Massachusetts for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination drew lots of attention Monday, the group first endorsed Warren in February 2015, when it called on the senator—as “the nation’s most powerful voice for working families”—to challenge front-runner Hillary Clinton for the party’s 2016 nomination. Warren chose not to run, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders stepped up. The WFP eventually backed his bid, with a December 2015 announcement from party leadership that “we’re standing with Bernie Sanders to build the political revolution and make our nation into one where every family can thrive.”
Now the WFP is again with Warren. That’s significant, as is the fact that it isn’t with Sanders. [...]
The WFP’s decision to endorse distinguished it from the majority of progressive groups and unions, which are waiting to make choices between Warren and Sanders, and the several other contenders who lay claim to the progressive mantle in 2020.The article continues. One reason I mention it is because in 2015, I was calling for Warren to run, and was disappointed (then) that she didn't. I'm no longer disappointed that she didn't run in 2016.
I believe the timing for her message today is more... something. The expression that comes to mind is that it's always darkest right before the dawn.
We ARE on the cusp on a new day in America.
Anyway, please enjoy these two clips from The Late Show.
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