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Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign: This Is About A Brokered Convention Now

Emily Zanotti
Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign: This Is About A Brokered Convention Now
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) tacitly admitted, in an email to supporters that went out Saturday night, that the Massachusetts Democrat is staying in the race past Super Tuesday in order to compete for the nomination at a brokered Democratic National Convention in July.

Warren is facing calls to drop out after placing a dismal fourth or fifth in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and, as of Saturday, South Carolina, leaving little hope that she will ever top the ticket at the behest of Democratic voters. She is not leading in any Super Tuesday states — not even her home state of Massachusetts (she’s losing, it seems, to the more reliably progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)).

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