Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's support for 'Medicare for All' and her opponents' efforts to highlight and question that support sit at at the center of her current problems in the polls, writes CillizzaCNN | Analysis
The Massachusetts senator had surged in Iowa and New Hampshire -- the two states that will lead off the nomination fight earlier next year -- and had pulled into a dead heat with former Vice President Joe Biden nationally. Then that Warren wave hit a wall. Starting right around mid-October, Warren's numbers not only stopped moving upward but also began trending down.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! The beginning of Warren's polling dip coincides closely with the October 15 presidential debate. In that debate, Warren was attacked from all sides -- especially by Biden and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg -- for a) her support for a plan that would totally eliminate private health insurance and b) her lack of specifics on how she would pay for it.
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