Elizabeth Warren has suspended her campaign for president. She’s not going away, though, she’s obviously maneuvering for something behind the scenes, hence her unwillingness to endorse either Bernie or Biden at this time.
What does she want? It could be a V.P. slot, but Bernie or Biden would be out of their minds to do that.
Bernie doesn’t need to prove his far-left bona fides by adding Warren to the ticket, and two leftists from New England on a ticket would be a disaster. Biden also doesn’t gain anything from adding Warren, as she would be an unhelpful distraction. ‘Sleepy Joe’ has enough issues without bringing Warren’s Native American and other problems to the ticket.
Warren may be doing what she did in 2015-2016, when she used the threat of her challenging Hillary to try to extract concessions from Hillary, including getting Warren’s people in key places in a future Hillary administration. Or perhaps Warren wants a senior cabinet position in the Biden/Bernie administration, a position where she would control much of the economy and try to implement her delusional economic plans without having to be elected.
Czarina Warren has a certain ring to it.
My best guess is that Warren is just going to hang around, not actively running but not throwing her support to either Bernie or Biden. If Warren can extract concessions, maybe she commits, but if not, she’ll just wait to see if they both implode and be there to pick up the pieces at the convention.
We haven’t heard the last of Elizabeth Warren this campaign season.
That said, it was a massive blow to Warren to have to suspend her campaign. But it was bound to happen. It has been clear for a long time that she could not escape her public persona of being a faker. I covered this almost a month ago just after her dismal performance in New Hampshire, Warren Campaign Obituary: She tried to fake it, but America didn’t buy it:
The massive campaign machine Warren built, reportedly with over 1000 campaign employees, could not overcome the most fundamental problem Warren’s campaign faced: Warren’s public persona of being a fake.Americans will nominate and elect all sorts of candidates, from the virtuous to the rogue. But Americans don’t like fakes.And there may never have been a more fake major candidate in modern American history than Elizabeth Warren.Virtually everything about her personal narrative was false or questionable. And she couldn’t shake the “faux” prefix….Donald Trump branded Warren “Pocahontas,” and social media called her “Fauxcahontas” and other variations. Whether you approve of those terms or not, Warren was branded as a fake, and it stuck. She couldn’t shake it no matter how hard she tried because there was a core truth to it.Then it was a drip, drip, drip of fakery exposed….No amount of money could change Elizabeth Warren’s brand. No number of consultants and campaign staff could change Warren’s brand.Warren was a faker. America doesn’t want a faker. New Hampshire killed her campaign. The Elizabeth Warren campaign epitah will be: “She tried to fake it, but American didn’t buy it.”Warren’s campaign obituary has been written. It’s only a matter of time before her campaign capitulates to reality.
Legal Insurrection readers know the role I have played in documenting Warren’s Native American and other personal and professional deceptions. That documentation is spread over 500 posts at Legal Insurrection, and organized the cataloged at ElizabethWarrenWiki.org, the website I launched on January 30, 2013, Announcing ElizabethWarrenWiki.org:
The site originally was conceived, days before the 2012 election, as The Elizabeth Warren File, a place where we could collect the massive amount of research compiled by people such as Cherokee Genealogist Twila Barnes and her team, Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart.com, The Boston Herald, and others including Legal Insurrection.Given the likelihood that Warren would continue to be a national political figure regardless of the election outcome, we didn’t want this information to get lost from the public view. It was particularly important to have it all in one place given the mainstream media and left-blogosphere willingness to overlook or excuse the negatives in Warren’s history.Over time, however, we began to question whether a regular website format was the best vehicle. We began to consider and do initial preparation for a Wiki-style format.Our format decision was made for us when we noticed that Warren’s Wikipedia page had been ethnically cleansed of the embarrassing information regarding her claim to be Cherokee. The Wikipedia page remains inaccurate and incomplete, the result of an edit war supporters of Warren appear to have won, at least for the moment.We decided that our Wiki would be a much more comprehensive and balanced alternative to Wikipedia. We will present the good about Warren and her career, along with the negatives. We collect the information, you decide.
After the launch of the wiki, Business Insider derided the effort, Conservative Lawyers’ Blog Finds New Way To Attack Elizabeth Warren:
Warren’s probably not afraid of a little wiki.
Since then, I’ve appeared on countless radio shows and also on TV to talk about the depth and cunning of Warren’s ethnic deception.
It’s been an over 7-year battle to get the truth out.
It’s gratifying to see The Washington Times acknowldege how long and how hard the fight has been, Meet the Cornell law professor who tracked Elizabeth Warren’s missteps:
When tracking the reasons Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid fell short, don’t forget the conservative law professor in Ithaca, New York, who wouldn’t let the world forget that the Massachusetts Democrat for years had identified herself as an American Indian.
Read the whole thing, here’s an excerpt:
Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson created and maintained the Elizabeth Warren Wiki for seven years. The site documents the controversies that have dogged her political career, starting with her disputed claims of Cherokee ancestry….During her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, which ended Thursday after her poor showing on Super Tuesday, she was repeatedly challenged on her characterizations of her previous professional work and episodes from her past.They included her legal representation of large corporations; losing her teaching job in 1971 over being pregnant; describing her father as a janitor; accusing a senior professor of sexual harassment, and being the first nursing mother to take the New Jersey bar exam.All those incidents and more were chronicled on EWW, which isn’t affiliated with Wikipedia, often after appearing in Legal Insurrection, the conservative blog founded by Mr. Jacobson in 2008. Both served as resources for news outlets seeking information on all things Warren during the Democratic primary.He isn’t politically neutral, but he said he has gone out of his way to keep EWW, available at ElizabethWarrenWiki.org, “straight, nonargumentative, everything sourced, hundreds of footnotes,” using the research of others, including Cherokee genealogists, whenever possible. The site has been viewed more than 750,000 times.“It’s a somewhat unique role,” Mr. Jacobson said. “I can’t think of any other candidate where you’ve got one person documenting so thoroughly the false narrative of their life story.”….Questions about her authenticity may have tipped the scale for leftist voters torn between Ms. Warren and Sen. Bernard Sanders, who ultimately prevailed in capturing the lion’s share of the party’s progressive wing.“Whatever Bernie is, he’s kind of authentic. He is who he is, and he’s been that way for 50 years,” Mr. Jacobson said. “But Warren has been something of a political chameleon, and I think that getting the facts out there was extremely damaging.”,,,,He drew the ire of Warren’s Senate campaign, which called him a “right-wing extremist who is on the record supporting and contributing money to Scott Brown,” as reported by the Herald, referring to his $200 donation to Mr. Brown in the 2010 race.,,,His chronicling has met with pushback from her supporters, including one who wrote emails in 2012 to other Cornell professors “about what a horrible person I am, how I’ve been lying about Elizabeth Warren, damaging the school’s reputation, and how I should not be allowed to be on the faculty.”He’s still on the faculty, still publishing Legal Insurrection and EWW, “but it wasn’t an easy road along the way.”“It’s not very pleasant when every person you work with is getting emails about you from an Elizabeth Warren supporter,” Mr. Jacobson said. “But I’m glad I did it. I’m glad I stuck to it.”
The rewriting of Warren’s history already has begun. She portrays herself as a victim of sexism, rather than a victim of her own false narratives.
So the job of getting the truth out is not done.
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