U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., ended her presidential campaign on Thursday. The New York Times broke the news earlier in the day that she would drop and then later confirmed after Warren made an official statement outside of her home in Cambridge.
She recognized what many of us saw before the Iowa Caucus, there was no recognizable or realistic path for her to the Democratic nomination. With every state contest, the results were worse.
And now we are down to three, really two, but I have to acknowledge that U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is still in the race. I assume because she enjoys being a squeaky wheel and trolling the other candidates.
The Old Gray Lady entitled their article, âElizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race.â In this piece where they had this amusing paragraph:
Ms. Warrenâs political demise was a death by a thousand cuts, not a dramatic implosion but a steady decline. In the fall, according to most national polls, Ms. Warren was the national pacesetter in the Democratic field. By December, she had fallen to the edge of the top tier, wounded by a presidential debate in October during which her opponents relentlessly attacked her, particularly on her embrace of âMedicare for all.â
Warren was a âfront runnerâ for a nano-second in a handful of national polls. According to Real Clear Politicsâ average of national polls, her peak came on October 8, 2019, when she led Biden by a whole two-tenths of one percent.

If I had to describe Warren with two words, the first would be phony.
Nothing about her seemed genuine starting from the very first âletâs have a beer videoâ to her cultural appropriation of Native Americans to her blatant dishonesty about her proposed wealth tax.
Even most of her ideas were not her own but glomed off of ideas proposed by Bernie âI wrote the damn billâ Sanders.
A second word I would use is scripted.
Everything was rehersed, there was no spontaneity, she found a way to get to her scripted answers during every âtown hallâ where she would take three ârandomâ questions submitted ahead of time regardless of what the questions were.
Yes, every politician does this to a point, but Warren had it down to an art form. And I donât say that as a compliment.
Warren was an awful candidate, and the reason she lost support is that voters inclined to vote for her or Bernie Sanders could look at him and see that he was at least telling the truth about his idea.
Sanders admitted he was going to raise taxes on us for Medicare for All. Warren hemmed and hawed at answering that basic question.
To her credit, she helped Biden out in two ways leading up to his campaignâs Super Tuesday resurrection following his expected South Carolina Primary win. The first was her brutal takedown of Mike Bloomberg during the last debate. He was mainly a non-factor in most of the races. Bloomberg underperformed his polling in several states, and I think Warren was a large part of that.
The second is pulling from Sandersâ potential base.
Hopefully, Biden sends her some flowers or a lovely basket of fruit. Some predict that âthank youâ could be in the form of being his vice presidential pick, possibly, but I doubt it. Two white seventy-something Northeasterners running at the top of the ticket isnât inspiring. I suspect his running mate will be a person of color and younger. I donât have any unique insight into this, but itâs just a hunch that we will not see a Biden-Warren ticket.
After Super Tuesdayâs debacle, where she failed to win her home state, we may see the dwindling of her political career.
I, for one, wonât shed any tears.