This McClatchy News article, and an NBC poll showing Elizabeth Warren in
second place, are making waves today...

Joanna Berens freely admits that she once doubted if an academic like
Elizabeth Warren could win the presidency.

That was before she watched one of the senator’s televised town halls.
 “She doesn’t just have some sound bites,” said Berens, a 57-year-old
event planner, marveling at what she remembers seeing minutes before she
was set to see Warren in person at another town hall in Miami recently.
“She’s listening. She’s engaging. She hears what they’re saying, and
offers thoughtful comments.”

Now, Berens isn’t just convinced Warren would make a strong general
election nominee -- she’s thrilled about the prospect of her confronting
President Donald Trump on the debate stage. “Oh my god,” she said. “She
will flatten him.”

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Warren’s summer-long rise in polls and fundraising success in the
Democratic presidential primary is usually attributed to her detailed
policy agenda or longstanding appeal to liberal diehards. 

But Warren supporters and other friendly Democrats cite another reason for
her ascent: Voters who expected to see an awkward policy wonk on the
campaign trail are instead impressed by a candidate they describe as
authentic and charismatic. 

That shift has marked a key development in a primary where many Democratic
voters say they are most interested in a candidate who can defeat Trump
next fall. And it speaks to Warren’s ability to reach beyond her natural
base of progressive activists, connecting with voters who might be more
ideologically moderate but nonetheless drawn to her...

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, for example, has been compiling
[ [link removed] ]video clips of Democratic voters who became supporters of the
Massachusetts Democrat after seeing her in action — whether on the
campaign trail or after June’s first round of debates. (The PCCC has
endorsed Warren’s campaign.)

In one video, posted on the group’s website [ [link removed] ]SwitchtoWarren.com, a voter
said he had been undecided about which candidate to support before seeing
Warren in person during an event in Michigan. 

“I think it was her personality,” said one man identified in the video as
Noah Colandrea, from Haslett, Michigan. “I liked how genuine she seemed,
and that’s something that I’ve been kind of thinking about recently.”

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Before she takes questions from the audience at her town halls, Warren
typically recounts her own upbringing — a story that mentions her family’s
poverty and some of her own questionable decisions as a young woman. When
she does dive into policy details, she often intertwines them with her own
story or the story of people she’s met.

“What’s truly winning people to her side in the room is not just that she
has a plan for everything, but that she connects those plans to her
personal story of struggle growing up poor in Oklahoma and being a single
mom in Texas,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the PCCC.

“I don’t think the pundits realize that it’s not an academic thing,” he
added. “It’s that she connects at a gut level with the audience.”

Warren campaign officials say their decision to emphasize events where the
senator interacts with voters over high-dollar fundraisers was a
deliberate move to make sure, in part, that she would keep improving as a
candidate — what one member of the campaign termed “building her muscles.”

Entering this past weekend, Warren had held 111 town halls and received
517 questions over the course of her presidential campaign, according to
her campaign.

At her Miami town hall last month, the 1,300 people in the audience didn’t
wait long to interrupt Warren with extended chants of her last name. One
of those in attendance, Sharyn Marks, said that she loved Warren’s life
story and proposals to regulate banks.

But the 66-year-old retiree gets especially excited about Warren when she
imagines the senator going one-on-one with Trump during the 2020 debates
with the whole country watching.

“I think she would be outstanding in the debates against him,” Marks said.
“She’d sweep the floor with him.” She added, “A lot of the other guys, I
don’t think they can.”

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-- The PCCC Elections Team


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