Joe Biden’s lack of liberal bona fides won’t stop Elizabeth Warren from doing everything in her power to get President Trump out of office in November.
“We can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what’s broken,” Warren said in front of a collection of cubbies and a subtle “Black Lives Matter” sign. “These plans reflect a central truth: Our economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else. But we can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what’s broken.”
The Massachusetts senator delivered her remarks from an empty, Springfield early childhood education center, hoping to highlight the millions of students who will be enrolling in fall classes remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I love a good plan,” Warren said. “And Joe Biden has some really good plans.”
Warren’s fawning words for Biden stand in contrast to the tense relationship the two have developed over the years. During the primary, Warren regularly insinuated that Biden was too open to compromising with the GOP to be trusted by liberals. Biden would respond by calling her myriad plans to radically restructure the economy as unrealistic.
“I read a speech by one of my — good person — one of my opponents, saying that, ‘You know, Biden says we’re going to have to work with Republicans to get stuff passed.’ I thought, ‘Well, OK — how are you going to do it, by executive order?'” Biden said in December of last year, echoing his comments from October where he said, “We’re not electing a planner.”
In a November op-ed, Biden implied Warren’s unabashedly left-wing style came across as “elitist.”
“Some call it the ‘my way or the highway,’ approach to politics,” Biden wrote. “It’s condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view.”
As recently as January of this year, Warren revived claims that Biden sold out the middle class with his support of a 2005 law that dramatically restructured bankruptcy laws.
“Thanks in part to the 2005 bankruptcy bill, our current system makes it far too hard for people in need to start the bankruptcy process so they can get back on their feet,” Warren wrote.
