The Working Families Party endorsement could help Elizabeth Warren in her pursuit of the glossiest individual prize on the left: The backing of AOC
Elizabeth Warren,who is running for an at-large seat on Philadelphia’s city council in this November’s election. The second endorsement, one week later, sparked national headlines and could prove a major boost to Warren’s pursuit of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The connective tissue? Brooks is running for the Philly council on the Working Families Party line, and Warren now has the WFP’s backing for her White House run.
There is some murkiness about just how the WFP awarded Warren its backing—the party’s process involves a weighted vote split between the rank and file and leadership, and some analysts believe the WFP membership went for Sanders, with the party’s bosses throwing decisive support behind Warren. The WFP hasn’t released the specific tally. Regardless, its official backing went to Warren, and it adds to her momentum. “It isn’t determinative,” saysa top strategist for Sanders in 2016.
“The left for the Democrats is now what the evangelicals were for the Republicans 20 or 30 years ago—the energy of the party, the fighting spirit of the party,” saysa Democratic strategist who has extensive experience with grassroots groups and labor unions. “And do the math: The progressives in this race, collectively, are beating Biden in the polls by two to one.”
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