After losing his home state of Florida, Marco Rubio, once the rising star of the Republican Party, bowed out of the 2016 primary with his political prospects unclear. But at least Rubio managed to win a single state (that is if you’re not counting the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
Elizabeth Warren lost not one, but two of her home states, getting blown out in her childhood home of Oklahoma and crumbling in her adopted Massachusetts, which sent her to the Senate. Unlike Rubio, it’s not clear that Warren can crack the top three of delegate earners, let alone win a single state.
It’s time for her to stand down, as much for the sake of her viable competitors as for us, the public, who have to watch this humiliating endeavor.
Consider, after riding on over a year of media favor to emerge as the last woman standing (sorry, Tulsi), Warren lost Massachusetts to a 78-year-old socialist who’s never met a dictator he didn’t like and the seemingly senile 77-year old who couldn’t crack the double digits in the state’s polling. Oklahoma was even more of a wipeout.
What now? She’s not projected to win any states, on Super Tuesday or ever, and as the field coalesces around Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, she serves as one-part spoiler, another part laughing stock. If she wants any hope of clinching a spot in a potential Sanders ticket, she better bow out now. If not, she doesn’t have much of a political future ahead of her. At 71 years-old, Warren won’t run for president again. Better spare herself the embarrassment of the rest of this spectacle and quit while she’s ahead.
