The liberal media and Democratic establishment really, really want Elizabeth Warren to be a thing. But voters simply aren’t buying it.
Final vote counts aren’t in from Tuesday night’s New Hampshire primary yet, but it’s clear that Warren didn’t do well. This comes after she finished in a weak third place in the Iowa caucuses last week.
It’s time for liberal journalists to get over their crush. Warren is not a top-tier candidate, no matter how hard they want her to be. If she can’t even finish top two in either of the two first voting states and bombed in New Hampshire, a neighboring state to her home state of Massachusetts, she is not a front-runner. Warren is projected to leave the first two contests with zero delegates.
#NHprimary results (56% reporting):
Sanders: 26.73%
Buttigieg: 23.06%
Klobuchar: 19.73%
Warren: 9.72%
Biden: 8.64%
Steyer: 3.63%
Gabbard: 3.20%
Yang: 2.90%— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) February 12, 2020
Accepting this reality will be hard on MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, and other liberal outlets who have glowingly covered her entire campaign. But it’s the truth. They need to take Warren’s second-tier status into account when deciding how many television interviews she should get, how many segments should be dedicated to her campaign, and so on.
For the liberal media to continue to artificially inflate the amount of attention Warren receives despite her massive electoral failures is to put a thumb on the scale and to stack the cards in her favor. Whether you like him or not, results show that Bernie Sanders deserves that attention, now.
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald summed it up nicely:
If you’re a Senator from Massachusetts who can’t get a single delegate in neighboring New Hampshire and can barely break double digits there, then you don’t deserve to be treated as a top-tier candidate.
I know that’s painful to hear for some but it’s true.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 12, 2020
At best, Warren is now running for vice president. As my colleague Kaylee McGhee explains, she has no clear path to the nomination at this point. It’s time for the liberal media to give up their pipe dream and stop pretending “Pocahontas” is going to be our next president.
