I am a wonk and therefore I liked Warren the best. I like Bernie, but I am now supporting Biden for strategic reasons. As I have said before, I would vote for a steaming pile of horse manure if it were running against Trump (well maybe not Pence).
The real question is what will the Bernie Bros do?
Elizabeth and I are so grateful for all the hard work of everyone on this team — not only leading up to Super Tuesday, but in all the weeks and months before.
To every volunteer, donor, and supporter: Thank you for everything you’ve done.
Last night, we fell well short of our viability goals and projections, and we are disappointed in the results. We’re still waiting for more results to come in to get a better sense of the final delegate math. And we also all know the race has been extremely volatile in recent weeks and days with frontrunners changing at a pretty rapid pace.
But we are obviously disappointed, and Elizabeth is talking with our team to assess the path forward.
All of us have worked for Elizabeth long enough to know that she isn’t a lifetime politician and doesn’t think like one. She’s going to take time right now to think through the right way to continue this fight. There’s a lot at stake for this country and the millions of people who are falling further and further behind.
This decision is in her hands, and it’s important that she has the time and space to consider what comes next.
Elizabeth believes in her ideas and in the big, structural change that is badly needed to root out corruption in Washington and will decide what she thinks is the best way to advance them.
We’ll have more soon.
Same. I voted for Warren because I think she’s the most competent person. I’m actually somewhat to the right of many of her progressive policies. My second choice preference is not strong. If she had dropped out I’d have voted for whoever looked most likely to win the nomination (which would have been Sanders before yesterday and Biden today). I think both Sanders and Biden would make fine presidents. I don’t have a good intuition for which one will be better positioned to beat Trump.
Nope. I would support Warren because she’s a wonky academic and wonky academics are my tribe.
Please don’t do this. We need every vote we can get against Trump, and while Biden may not be the dream candidate, he’s superior in every way to the guy whose there now. You may think your protest vote will teach the Democrats that they need to be more progressive, but if Trump wins the only lesson that will be learned is that nice guys finish last and the ignorance division and hatred is the way to win elections. It will be Trump of Trump clones for the foreseeable future.
I’d love to know the demographics of where you live. My immediate neighborhood is (was) probably 75% Warren. Urban, heavily LGBT, college educated (or creative) on the north side of Chicago. Some of them liked Elizabeth the wonk, some wanted revenge for Hillary, and others just liked the rainbow boa or the one liner about marrying just one woman if you could find one.
White guy, 58, in California. I voted Warren because she’s smart and capable as hell and has guts. When she drops out I’ll shift to Biden. I would never support Sanders.
Except for the fact that I don’t turn 42 for a couple of weeks, this could have been my post. I agree word for word.
(Plus, while I like Bernie’s policies better, I don’t think he’d be effective as a President and has little to no chance of accomplishing what he’s proposing).
Senator Warren is dropping out of the race. She will speak to the press later today. From what I’ve heard on CNN, she has spoken with Sanders but not with Biden. None the less my prediction is that she is not going to endorse either Biden or Sanders, at least not today.
She has apparently spoken to Biden as well.
My wife is a Warren supporter. She’s going to Biden now, preferring his pragmatism and also strongly disliking Sanders for 2016.
Looks like my choice (NY doesn’t vote till April) is going to be between two people both of whom I’d originally hoped wouldn’t run.
I had started off very undecided (some of the original large pack I knew nothing about when they first declared); but had been leaning more and more towards Warren as things started to narrow down. (FWIW, I’m mostly right in her demographic: college educated older woman.) I’m still a little undecided, but will probably be voting for Biden in April.
And for Just About Any Dem Who’s Breathing, And If Necessary One Who Isn’t in November.
– I’m not a Bernie Hater. I voted for him in the 2016 primaries; in large part because I know a lot of people who have been listening to the Clinton hate for 30 years or so; I was terrified that Clinton would lose, and I thought well hell, if the Republicans are actually going to run Trump, maybe the Democrats can run an avowed socialist and win. But this is four years later; Trump was a stronger candidate than I expected; and I haven’t been enthralled with Bernie’s behavior in the meantime; though there seems unfortunately to have been more than enough bad behavior by nearly everybody involved in this primary race to go around. All of it pales next to Trump’s, though.