Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren reaffirmed her commitment to stay in the race despite her fourth-place showing in New Hampshire and placing third in Iowa.
“We might be headed for another one of those long primary fights that lasts for months. We’re two states in, with 55 states and territories to go. We still have 98% of the delegates for our nomination up for grabs, and Americans in every part of our country are going to make their voices heard,” Warren (D-Mass.) told supporters at a rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday night.
The same day she conceded the race in the state neighboring her own, Warren’s campaign manager, Roger Lau, released a lengthy memo outlining their view of the senator’s electoral path forward.
With such a crowded primary field, the path to the nomination was far from set in stone, Lau said.
“No candidate has come close yet to receiving majority support among the Democratic primary electorate, and there is no candidate that has yet shown the ability to consolidate support,” he wrote in the memo.
“People who are predicting what will happen a week from now are the same people who a year ago predicted that Beto O’Rourke was a frontrunner for the nomination. Barely over a week ago, a fifth place finish in Iowa was seen likely to knock Amy Klobuchar out of the race, and much of the media and pundit class predicted Pete Buttigieg’s fade in the Iowa caucuses,” he added.
“As we’ve seen in the last week, debates and unexpected results have an outsize impact on the race, and will likely keep it volatile and unpredictable through Super Tuesday.”
Warren warned in her Tuesday night speech against the Democratic coalition becoming as bitterly divided as it was in 2016.
“The thing we have to ask as Democrats is whether there will be a broad, bitter rehash of the same old divides in our party, or whether we can find another way,” she said.
“These harsh tactics might work if you’re willing to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing.”
In his memo, Lau pitched his candidate as the best suited for uniting the moderate and progressive wings of the party currently at odds with one another.
“As the race consolidates after Super Tuesday, we expect the results to show that Elizabeth Warren is the consensus choice of the widest coalition of Democrats in every corner of the country.”




