Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., peaked a few years ago and shouldn’t bother running for president in 2020, her hometown Boston Globe wrote in an editorial.
The Globe encouraged Warren to run for the White House in 2016. But in the editorial posted Thursday, the paper said she missed her chance and has become a “divisive figure” who can’t win in 2020.
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“Warren missed her moment in 2016, and there’s reason to be skeptical of her prospective candidacy in 2020,” the editorial said.
“While Warren won reelection, her margin of victory in November suggests there’s a ceiling on her popularity; Governor Baker garnered more votes than her in a state that is supposed to be a Democratic haven,” the paper wrote. “Meanwhile, a September poll indicated that Massachusetts voters were more enthusiastic about [former Gov. Deval] Patrick making a White House bid than Warren.”
“Those are warning signs from the voters who know her best,” the Globe added. “While Warren is an effective and impactful senator with an important voice nationally, she has become a divisive figure.”
“A unifying voice is what the country needs now after the polarizing politics of Donald Trump,” it said.
The paper praised Patrick for deciding not to run for the White House in 2020, and said of other candidates like Warren that there is “no shame in testing the waters and deciding to stay on the beach.”
Warren is one of several dozen Democrats who seem to be exploring a 2020 run. However, many give former Vice President Joe Biden the best shot of winning the Democratic nomination, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is also given a better than average chance given his close battle with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
