Elizabeth Warren took third in Iowa, and stumbled in New Hampshire. But her campaign is touting a plan for "the long haul."
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — On the eve of Tuesday's New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, hundreds of Democrats packed a Unitarian church in this coastal city to listen to Sen. Elizabeth Warren make her final case.
New Hampshire voters' lack of enthusiasm showed in Warren's final standing, a disappointing, distant fourth place, at 9.2%, not even mustering double-digits, and well below Sanders' first-place 25.8%, Buttigieg's 24.5% and Klobuchar's 19.9%. After earning eight national delegates in Iowa, she left New Hampshire with zero.
"It is a very fluid field, and even knocking on doors in Iowa and New Hampshire right up until Election Day, people were still making up their minds," said Michelle Wu, a Boston City Councilor at-large and Warren supporter who campaigned for her in both states."Voters are really wanting to think about November. That means that it will be a long race and a long primary, and Elizabeth's operation is built for the long haul.
Joe Trippi, a longtime Democratic campaign operative who ran former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's losing presidential bid in 2004, said Warren, along with other campaigns, "underestimated how tough it is to run in a multi-candidate field." He said they viewed the race through the lens of the last few cycles, which had few viable contenders.
But hurting Warren, according to Rachel Bitecofer, a political scientist and assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, is that the far-left progressive faction in 2020 has proven smaller than in 2016. More so than ideology, Levesque said New Hampshire voters consider traits like personality, style, electability and momentum.
"Take a walk around the block, eat an extra piece of chocolate, hug your pet, adopt a pet, watch videos of cats and dogs who are friends, call a friend — whatever works," the email read."But once you've let it all out, take a deep breath, square your shoulders, and make a plan — a plan to fight back and win. A plan to help make sure that we won't have to feel this way again.
In the days leading up to Tuesday's primary, Warren touted the long-term viability of the campaign when asked about the outlook New Hampshire, pointing to some 1,000 campaign workers she has in 31 states. He offered critiques of several candidates. Sanders has a ceiling that's"significantly lower" than four years ago. Former Vice President Joe Biden has started to lose support from African American and senior voters, his two greatest strengths. Buttigieg's"most significant challenge is yet to come," Lau said, as the primary moves to more diverse states. Bloomberg will"soon be forced to actually debate his record, rather than hiding behind millions in TV ads.
But to show momentum into Super Tuesday, Warren desperately needs a strong performance in Nevada – perhaps first or second – where a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll in January showed her in third place at 11%, behind Biden, 19% and Sanders, 18%.
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