Democratic Primaries
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(108,953 posts)Unfortunately for Joe Biden, the women who were introduced to him during the Anita Hill hearings, and later watched him fight with Elizabeth Warren for decades over his anti-consumer banking legislation, are at an age to vote in high numbers.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/politics/elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-history-bankruptcy-bill/index.html
Despite being born only about six-and-half years apart, Biden, 76, and Warren, 69, have come to symbolize distinct and competing factions within the Democratic party. Along with her ideological ally, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Warren has been at the forefront of a progressive resurgence determined to unmoor the old establishment, pushing it left with the promise of deliverance from a "corrupt" and increasingly unequal economic order. Biden, meanwhile, is pitching himself as an experienced bipartisan statesman and safe harbor for Democrats -- and maybe some Republicans -- worried, as he is, that another term of Trump threatens to "forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation."
Like most of the Democratic candidates in the 2020 field, Warren has so far largely steered clear of commenting on -- let alone, attacking -- her rivals.
But when asked last week whether the former vice president was "too cozy" with Wall Street, the Massachusetts senator was unusually direct, noting that their "disagreement is a matter of public record."
"At a time when the biggest financial institutions in this country were trying to put the squeeze on millions of hardworking families who are in bankruptcy because of medical problems, job losses, divorce and death in the family, there was nobody to stand up for them," Warren said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the same day that Biden officially announced his candidacy.
And then, with a single sentence, Warren opened up a new chapter in the campaign: "I got in that fight because they just didn't have anyone, and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden