Prez’s coming for you, Liz
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Look out, Elizabeth Warren.
The Massachusetts senator’s rise in the polls has caught the attention of President Trump and will not go unnoticed with the rest of the Democratic presidential field.
Trump made clear in New Hampshire that he will be bringing up Warren’s past when she called herself an “American Indian” and don’t be surprised if Joe Biden’s opposition research team gets the memo, too.
“Don’t worry, it will be revived,” Trump promised at his Manchester rally, referring to Warren again as “Pocahontas.”
Warren has largely gotten a free pass in the media for the past few months as she’s steadily climbed in the polls. No surprise, there. She’s been the media darling since she first announced her Senate run.
But after stumbling out of the gate with her much-criticized DNA test showing she had a minuscule Native American heritage, Warren looked to be dead in the water. Not even her Democratic supporters were happy.
Not so fast.
Warren, thanks in part to energetic debate performances, has recovered and now poses a major threat to Biden and especially Sen. Bernie Sanders.
A new national Fox News poll shows Warren holding a 10-point lead over her Vermont Senate colleague and that’s fueled largely by liberal voters.
Warren — not Sanders or Sen. Kamala Harris — is now creeping to close in on Biden and looks to be his main rival for the nomination.
As long as Warren and Sanders are splitting the progressive vote, Biden’s lead is safe.
“I think Sleepy Joe may be able to limp across,” Trump said.
But if Warren starts to put Sanders away and he fades to single digits, watch out, Joe.
If it’s a one-on-one battle between Biden and Warren, then Warren probably wins. That’s when it will start to get ugly.
Biden’s campaign will be forced to launch negative attacks against the Massachusetts senator, and her biggest weakness is her claims of being a Native American at a time when her law career was on the rise.
And Biden’s negative attack ads will be nothing compared to what the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee will throw at her.
In addition to her American Indian claims, Warren will be vulnerable on health care. Because rather than release her own plan, Warren has endorsed Sanders’ extreme government health care takeover.
In New Hampshire, Trump made sure to mention that Democrats like Warren support destroying private health insurance plans and forcing tens of millions of people off their health care plans.
So get ready for a rough and tumble campaign, one that will spare no issue or weakness — and that includes Biden’s age and fitness for office. Warren has an opposition research team, too.
But most of the fire will be coming Warren’s way, thanks to her newfound position as Biden’s biggest threat.