Warren on the move

While it is still early in the presidential marathon, we may be seeing the beginning of a trend that was predicted here – several times – over recent months.  Just days ago, I wrote this:

“There are probably enough radical or gullible people in the country to keep either Sanders or Warren as a threat to Biden – but not both of them.  There may be enough to actually overtake Biden and give the nomination to Warren.  In that case, the big winner will be President Trump.”

Essentially, what happens to former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead as the field narrows and all those progressive votes begin to converge.  I will be a problem for him.

Initially, it looked like Vermont’s socialist Senator Bernie Sanders would be the beneficiary.  After all, he was the guy who almost took down the anointed one – Hillary Clinton.  Based on that, and the fact the Democratic Party has moved to the left, Sanders had every right to feel that the voters would “feel the Bern.”

Instead, he now appears to have become old news – with emphasis on “old.”  He could not have anticipated that an equally radical challenger would come on the scene – and in the form of a younger (not much, however) woman from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren.

Let’s look at the numbers.

According to the Quinnipiac polls, Warren has started to move away from Sander and is creeping up on Biden.  In last months poll, Biden held a 34 to 15 percent lead over Warren – with Harris at 12 percent and Sanders at 11.

In the most recent poll, Biden drops to 32 percent and Warren moves up to 21 percent.  Sanders actually moves up to 14 percent, but now far behind his main competition.  That’s right.  At this stage, it is not Biden who will end Sanders’ dream of residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  It is Warren.

Sanders was not the only big loser.  In the presidential game of Whack-A-Mole, the once highly touted Kamala Harris joined the legion of single-digit candidates by dropping from 12 percent to 7 percent.  Ouch!

Despite their popularity on the left-wing media circuit, such presidential hopefuls as Mayor Peter Buttigieg (moving from 6 to 5 percent), the frenetic Beto O’Rourke (holding at 2 percent) and Senator Cory Booker (doubling his scored from 1 percent to 2 percent) lead a field of candidates striving for a humiliating one percent.

It has been obvious from the start that once the predominately left-wing candidates start dropping off or losing gravitas, one of the radical progressives will benefit.  There are enough far-left votes scattered among the contenders to swamp Biden.  He may find that his floor is his ceiling.  Time will tell.

So, there ‘tis.

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