Breaking: Elizabeth Warren, who briefly led the 2020 field but suffered defeats in the primaries, has dropped out of the presidential race
Elizabeth Warren has decided to drop out of the presidential race after failing in her attempts to bridge the Democratic Party’s left and right flanks behind her progressive policy agenda, a source familiar with her decision said.It was still unclear if she would endorse either of the two remaining candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden or Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. She spoke to both in separate calls on Wednesday.
But the soaring cost of her ambitious plans, especially her proposal to provide free universal healthcare and eliminate private medical insurance, led to growing concerns from establishment Democrats that President Trump and his allies would portray the former Harvard bankruptcy law professor as radical.Many of the party’s progressives, in turn, viewed her proposals for phased healthcare plans and her efforts to reconcile the math as signals that she would retreat if elected.
Her proposal for a 2% tax on the ultra-wealthy, to help fund many of her social programs, was popular on the campaign trail, prompting supporters to chant “Two cents” at her rallies. Though foes painted the former professor as out of touch with Americans, she had a modest upbringing in Oklahoma that she frequently invoked on the campaign trail.
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