'Warren's candidacy is based on giving Democratic primary voters what they've always said they wanted. She's calling their bluff. ... But when votes start being cast will being the 'policy person' be compelling to Democratic voters?' writes CillizzaCNN
For years -- and, really, decades -- Democratic voters have asked their candidates to talk substance over style. Stop getting caught in a process fight about who can win in Iowa! Throw"electability" out the window! Ignore polls and the horse-race media! Just talk about issues that matter to the country in deep, serious and substantive ways!
Enter Elizabeth Warren, who has premised her 2020 presidential campaign on a simple idea -- captured nicely by Time magazine in its cover story on the Massachusetts senator this week:"'I have a plan for that': Democrat Elizabeth Warren is betting Americans are ready for her big ideas." .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Writes Haley Sweetland Edwards of Warren:"She has set herself apart in a Democratic field of more than 20 candidates by offering more than a dozen complex policy proposals designed to address an array of problems, from unaffordable housing and child care to the overwhelming burden of student debt. Her anticorruption initiative would target the Washington swamp, and her anti-trust measures would transform Silicon Valley. On May 8 she unveiled a $100 billion plan to fight the opioid crisis.
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