Elizabeth Warren Drops Presidential Bid
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We ran the numbers: There are 2482 news articles covering this topic. 56% (1379) are left leaning, 37%(913) center, 8% (190) right leaning.
On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. While left-leaning articles highlight Warren’s trajectory as a presidential candidate, right-leaning articles highlight that Warren supporters might not automatically jump to supporting Sanders.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that Senator Elizabeth Warren entered the 2020 race with progressive policy proposals to strip power and wealth from a moneyed class, but failed to attract a broader political coalition in the Democratic Party. However, Warren had an immense impact on the race as her policy plans drove the agenda, effectively pushing former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg out of the race.
NPR published a centrist article highlighting that although Warren was popular among Democrats for a long time, raised a lot of money, and was the front-runner in polls at some point last year, there was some dissatisfaction with her responses to questions about Medicare for All, and many women did not think she could win. However, the article notes that it’s still unclear where Warren’s supporters are going to go, and what her impact will be from dropping out.
Washington Examiner published a right-leaning article reporting that Warren supporters will not necessarily jump to Bernie and many will end up supporting Joe Biden. The article states that there’s little reason for Warren’s base of white women to pick Bernie over Biden now that there are no female candidates.