‘Strategic mistake’: Elizabeth Warren pulls punches against front-runner Bernie Sanders

By Joseph Simonson

Published February 26, 2020 8:12pm ET

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‘Strategic mistake’: Elizabeth Warren pulls punches against front-runner Bernie Sanders — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., listens to a question during the question and answer part of her campaign event Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter) | (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter)

Elizabeth Warren polls in fourth place nationally in the 2020 Democratic field, but in debates she has declined to attack the rival she most needs to weaken, front-runner Bernie Sanders.

It’s a curious strategy for a candidate who prides herself on “having a plan” for social problems ranging from college debt, healthcare, to helping minorities start their own marijuana growing business.

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