Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she still sees a path to the nomination ahead of Super Tuesday — despite not having won any states yet and not hedging her bets on winning any today.
Warren (D-Mass.), who currently holds a mere eight delegates after disappointing finishes in early states, will continue collecting what she hopes will be enough delegates to remain competitive in the case of a contested Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, as her campaign manager, Roger Lau, outlined in a memo Sunday.
“Our internal projections continue to show Elizabeth winning delegates in nearly every state in play on Super Tuesday, and in a strong position to earn a sizable delegate haul coming out of the night,” Lau wrote in the memo, published on Medium.
In mid-February, Lau wrote in a different memo that he expected Warren to take home delegates in all but one Super Tuesday state.
“Warren is poised to finish in the top two in over half of Super Tuesday states (eight of 14), in the top three in all of them, and is on pace to pick up at-large statewide delegates in all but one,” he wrote.
The progressive senator appears so confident about her standing that she refused to refer to her home state of Massachusetts as a “must-win” when speaking to a Washington Post reporter Saturday.
The Massachusetts Democrat is privately relying on collecting the supporters of her rivals as they dropped out, close allies and aides of the presidential hopeful told Politico.
One aide told the outlet that the campaign believes multiple candidates with supporters open to Warren would withdraw in the next 10 days.
Elizabeth Warren emerges from a voting booth today in Cambridge, Mass.APThat report was published ahead of former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota dropping out of the race and endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden.
Whether Warren can scoop up some of their supporters remains to be seen, but the 2020 hopeful plans to remain in the race regardless while hoping for a contested convention in July. Campaign aides maintain that hope with the belief that no other candidate can win a majority of pledged delegates either, making a contested convention inevitable.
“In the road to the nomination, the Wisconsin primary is halftime, and the convention in Milwaukee is the final play,” Lau wrote.



