The biggest loser: Elizabeth Warren
The biggest loser: Elizabeth Warren
The partial exams on Tuesday had mixed results, giving both sides great victories and big losses. It will take some time to figure out what it means. However, the night, however, provided a total, complete and pure loser: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
For a decade, Ms. Warren, 69, has been busy trying to remake Washington with her progressive image. His role in the creation of a new apparatus of financial regulation gave him a great influence on the bureaucracy. His successful candidacy for the Senate in 2012 gave him a megaphone to shout against "billionaires, fanatics and Wall Street bankers," and Donald Trump. The left begged him to challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016 and change the name of the Democratic Party as a progressive and populist force. Ms. Warren objected, leaving the field to Bernie Sanders.
She, on the other hand, carefully designed this year's mid-term exams as her launch pad for the presidency. Ms. Warren planted several carefully selected progressive proteges in key races, notably Richard Cordray, former director of the Office of Consumer Financial Protection (who ran for governor of Ohio), and a former law student, Katie Porter (who ran in a district of the California Chamber). Ms. Warren prepared a shady war room, built links with some 150 campaigns, directed millions of dollars to raise funds to select candidates and, therefore, won chips. Dispersed the employees to the first primary states and toured the country herself. A week ago, Ohio's headlines dominated rallies for Mr. Cordray. If Mr. Trump was on the national ballot, Ms. Warren was in Buckeye State.
The preparation for Tuesday had already been brutal for her. Hoping to return to the headlines after the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Ms. Warren chose in mid-October to release a five-minute video and a stack of documents intended to prove that she is really at least 1/1024 native American. The ridicule was ruthless, only accompanied by the anger that the Democrats directed towards her for distracting herself from the election.
But on Tuesday it aggravated the disaster. Ms. Porter, who campaigned in Orange County to obtain medical care from a single payer, expanded Social Security and the university free of debt, became the two-term Mimi Walters Representative. In Ohio, Mr. Cordray lost to Attorney General Mike DeWine. And in Indiana, in what many claimed was the closest race in that state's House in the medium term, Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth defeated Liz Watson, backed by Warren, from 59% to 41%.
These results reflected a national collapse by the progressive candidates. Josh Kraushaar, of the National Journal, drew up a list of nine progressive candidates as a "proof" of "left-handedness." They included Gov. Andrew Gillum of Florida and Ben Jealous of Maryland and Leslie Cockburn, who ran for one of Virginia's most vulnerable Republican congressmen. Districts were 0 by 9. In fact, outside the safe Democratic districts, the movement on the left took a full bath, even in the Chamber races in the Second Nebraska, 24 and New York districts. The progressive candidates were the biggest gift from the Democrats to the Republicans on Tuesday night.
But, by far, Ms. Warren's greatest repudiation was in her own liberal state. He supported a voting initiative that would have required proportions of nurse to patient in hospitals; The voters destroyed it, 70% to 30%. He was joined by Democratic Gov. Jay Gonzalez, who lost to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker by 34 points. And although Ms. Warren sent her own Senate candidate on Tuesday, she performed less than the best Republican in the state. Some 1.7 million voters went to Mr. Baker; 1.6 for Mrs. Warren.
He put on a brave face Wednesday when he told a crowd at Brown University that many Democrats who came to Washington ran "on a very progressive agenda that government is an important part of our lives." He did not mention that almost all of them won in the deep blue districts that would have voted for a ferret with a D next to his name. These are not areas that win the presidency. The group of experts on the left, Third Way, reports that their team saw "each of the 967 ads that Democrats posted in the competitive districts of the House of Representatives since Labor Day, and only two candidates mentioned Medicare for all or a single payer. " Both lost.
Elections have a way of clearing the board, creating new faces that overshadow those of previous cycles. That, along with Mrs. Warren's terrible night, is what should worry you. The Democrats did not get the blue wave they wanted, but they are still excited to beat Mr. Trump in 2020. And they showed their thirst for new names and personalities that could take them there. In the last year, the Democratic bank has become broader and deeper: Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Holder, Kirsten Gillibrand, Deval Patrick, Michael Bloomberg.
Mrs. Warren? She looks more like the old news.
Write to kim@wsj.com.
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