SELMA, Alabama — Elizabeth Warren dismissed mounting pressure to drop out of the presidential race after she failed to place first or second in any of the four contests ahead of Super Tuesday.
Warren, appearing at a presidential forum in Alabama on Sunday, was asked if she was listening to any of the pundits calling for her to end her White House bid.
“I persist,” she said, laughing.
The Massachusetts senator acknowledged Saturday night, after she won only 7.1% of support in South Carolina’s primary, that the race hasn’t gone as well as she had hoped. But she also took a sharper tone against her 2020 Democratic rivals.
“This crisis demands more than a senator who has good ideas, but whose 30-year track record shows he consistently calls for things he fails to get done and consistently opposes things he nevertheless fails to stop,” she said in Houston, taking aim at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Let’s be blunt,” Warren continued before referencing Joe Biden. “This crisis demands more than a former vice president so eager to cut deals with Mitch McConnell and the Republicans that he’ll trade good ideas for bad ones.”
She also slammed Michael Bloomberg: “This crisis demands more than a billionaire mayor who believes that since he’s rich enough to buy network airtime to pretend he’s the president, that entitles him to be president — and whose track record as mayor shows he’ll govern to protect himself and his rich friends over everyone else.”
Warren’s determination to stay in the race came around the same time as reports that Pete Buttigieg is ending his campaign.
