Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has finally hit the campaign trail hard for Clinton’s presidency, but many of her cheerleaders still wish it was Hillary Rodham Clinton supporting Warren for president.
Count longtime columnist and PBS pundit Mark Shields in that camp. Shields told a Georgetown University audience last week that Warren would have won in a runaway had she jumped in.
“The Democratic nominee this year would have been Elizabeth Warren, make no mistake about it,” he said. “She was the embodiment of both candidates, she was the feminist who took on the big boys and kept them honest, and wasn’t afraid to stand up to them, knew what she believed and actually stood by it.
“I have no question that she would have won the Democratic nomination.”
Shields lumped Clinton in with Donald Trump, saying voters can’t trust either of them. He said Clinton, who served on a congressional Watergate panel probing the Nixon-era scandal, should have learned that coverups don’t work, but didn’t.
“I do not understand Hillary Clinton,” he said, ripping her “compulsive secrecy.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
