Ali Vitali: The revealing reason Elizabeth Warren gave for her 2020 loss. - NBCNewsTHINK
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to the media outside her home in Cambridge, Mass., on March 5, 2020, two days after Super Tuesday.This is an adapted excerpt from “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House ... Yet,” a book by Ali Vitali, Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.
“Thank you, senator,” I said, shimmying off the uneven brick sidewalk and trying not to wrap myself, or anyone else, in the cord that connected my microphone to my camera crew. On one occasion when she’d already called on me and I was halfway through asking my question, a male reporter from a local station physically put his microphone over me and just started in on his query. “I’m talking to Ali now,” she told him, retraining her eyes on me and ignoring his stunned silence. I’d never seen a candidate do that before.But that night of Super Tuesday, Biden’s sweep of the electoral map was stunning.
Because here’s the truth about my job: Covering a candidate is exactly like being in a really overbearing, one-sided relationship. You think about them all the time, you talk about them constantly, you wonder what they’re doing when you’re not around. When you’re not with them, you’re wondering when you’ll see them again. It’s bizarre. I’m paid to get to know these people. Their policies, positions and statements — absolutely. But also, what kind of person they are.
who’d run for president in 2020 their due. Not to be complimentary, not to be overly harsh, just to show them for who they were as candidates: competent and qualified women. Minutes later, The Washington Post’s Annie Linskey asked Warren about gender and the role it played in this race. A question they’d all been asked to grapple with in real time, now answered with a new freedom.
When Warren looked back with me on the end of her candidacy in a November 2020 interview, she didn’t lay blame with her issues or her team or the way she ran. By contrast, she seemed to lay the bulk of the blame with herself.
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