Here is a link to a petition that Sen. Elizabeth Warren withdraw her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the Presidency of the United States.
Currently, as of December 18, 2019, in an average of polls for the 2020 Democratic nomination; corporate banker, former segregationist and beneficiary of corporate moneys, Joe Biden currently and undeservedly leads the race at 32%. Sen. Bernie Sanders follows that at 7 points behind at 25%. However, amongst all the other also-rans in the race for the 2020 nomination who are splitting off percentages from the Sanders campaign, Elizabeth Warren currently commands the lion's share of the remainder at 12%. This would be a whole 13% behind Sen. Sanders. Were Sen. Warren to withdraw her candidacy, there is little doubt that the progressive votes she currently commands would be added to Sen. Sanders war chest vs. the corporate-friendly Biden Campaign. This would put Sen. Sanders into a leading position with 37% of the vote. And with Biden in his current downward trend, we can likely expect that lead to grow as the other progressive also-ran's surrender to attrition.
Sen. Warren, since renouncing the Republican party, has been burning up the US Senate in her repeated and sometimes successful attempts to instill accountability and fear into the one-percenters of Wall Street. But her plans and policy are hamstrung by her admission that she will accept corporate donations in the general election should she get the nomination. Furthermore, with Biden's current lead, she currently has no chance of securing that nomination.
In 2016, the Democratic National Committee used the votes of its super-delegates to crown their chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton as the nominee; a candidate largely reviled to the degree that it negatively affected voter turnout and handed the oval office to one of the most odious examples of humanity in modern history. As you may or may not know, under current rules, the DNC may not use their super-delegates again in this way in 2020. In the first round of voting, the DNC is currently bound to respect the popular vote of its constituency, unless no clear front runner is established. If this is the case, a second round of voting will ensue, in which the DNC, if they are running true to form, will unreservedly use their super-delegate votes for Joe Biden.
It has been touted that many of the also-ran campaigns in the democratic race for the nomination are merely there to split the vote to the degree that this second round of super-delegate voting will occur and edge out any progressive candidates for the presidency. This would seem to be corroborated by the fact that many of these other candidates, are also super-delegates themselves. Warren in particular, who endorsed Mrs. Clinton is herself a super-delegate. Few of these candidates are not, including Sen. Sanders and Rep. Gabbard.
Sen. Warren's platform consists mainly of watered down versions of progressive policies put forward by Sen. Sanders since before she'd renounced the GOP. It must follow that if she truly believes in those progressive principles, she must recognize that given her current numbers, the best thing she can do to demonstrate those progressive values is to withdraw her presidential candidacy in favor of the Sanders Campaign.
With her current numbers, she cannot prevail. And removing herself from the race virtually ensures that her numbers will go to someone who can. And given the gravity, and very real possibility of handing the Presidency to the Oval Office's current occupant; this being in the form of an anti-reaction to a DNC-manipulated Joe Biden nomination. Anyone calling themselves progressive must cede the fact that splitting the vote in 2020 is too dangerous for our country, as well as the world and every living thing in it.
Sen. Warren is certainly an astute and intelligent person. The facts and figures presented here can certainly back up the conclusion that her campaign is a dangerous distraction from nominating Sen. Sanders. A candidate who was shown in polling to defeat our current president by more than a 10% margin in the general election of 2016. And given the demonstrable traitorous and criminal actions of the current president, one must assume that in a general election between Sanders and the subject of a current impeachment vote, that margin will only have grown in Sanders' favor. This cannot have escaped Sen. Warren's notice. And it will most certainly have been pointed out to her in the past year more than once.
However, the DNC's convention looms ever closer. And there are states engaging in the questionable purging of registered voters in both Georgia and Wisconsin even now. Every last vote does indeed count if we are to avoid the specter of a Biden candidacy, and possible re-election of a would-be fascist dictator. Given Sen. Warren's current numbers, she must concede the fact that she has no chance at the nomination, and that she and all the other candidates in the democratic race are diluting the numbers of the one candidate that polls show as indisputably defeating the GOP incumbent in the general election.
There must be no margin for error. The defeat of the President must be indisputable. Especially in light of the fact that Mrs. Clinton lost the general election with a popular vote lead of more than three million votes. There must not be another victory for a fascist that was installed into the office of the presidency in spite of the will of the electorate.
In view of the facts, and her numbers, as well as Sen. Sanders' numbers, any refusal to concede must be regarded as a tacit demonstration of her complicity with the Democratic National Committee to cause a second round of votes at the Democratic Convention; where the DNC will undoubtedly install Joe Biden as the democratic presidential candidate. Given the DNC's admitted, continuing and demonstrated efforts to suppress the progressive caucus in favor of Wall Street interests; interests that Warren herself regularly castigates for their own largess at the expense of 99% of the population... There is no scenario in which the DNC will vote to enshrine her as their candidate for the presidency. It will be Biden. Not her. And if she believes differently, she is not as astute or intelligent as I currently credit her to be.
Should she continue to split the vote as she is currently doing, she will essentially gift Wall Street with the corporate candidate of their choice. One she will likely vote for in any second round at the convention herself as a super-delegate. Just as she did for Hillary Clinton.
Assuming she is as intelligent and astute as I give her credit for, only two possible scenarios remain for her ongoing candidacy for the nomination. One: That she's entirely aware she's splitting the vote on the Democratic National Committee's behalf and is doing so intentionally to ensure Biden's nomination. Or two: She is not as politically astute as she must be in order to win the presidency in a general election, much less hold the office she professes to be qualified for.
Either possibility is damning. The best possible choice for her career and to demonstrate her progressive values is to withdraw her candidacy for the presidency, and instead focus on keeping her senatorial seat, where she has done and may continue to do a great amount of good for the American people. Especially with a progressive president like Sen. Sanders. The loss of her presence in the Senate would be a blow to progressive policies across the board, especially with her diligence in holding the 1% to accountability for the people. If anything, were she to continue in her aspirations to the executive branch, I submit that she would be a far more effective treasury secretary than a president. But her best work, and perhaps her continued best work might be as majority leader in the Senate after a Sanders victory.
I understand that she is invested in her current efforts. It will be a brave and difficult decision to abandon her current campaign in favor of another. However, here she can demonstrate that she can put country and people before party. She can ensure and even endorse the win of the person much of her policies are modeled on. She can choose the noble path and keep her good intentions, reputation and career intact. She can continue to serve the people if that is her wish. And fight for them ably. Her sacrifice could very well ensure the defeat of the fascist autocrat in the oval office. And in doing so, Elizabeth Warren can save our country, the human race and the planet itself. How many people can rightfully say that when history called upon them, that they cast aside personal aspirations and saved the world? All of it? She has that power. Right now.
All she has to do is withdraw from the race.
-Edward WinterRose (For, ‘tis truly his name.) is 48 year old Gen-X’er, Writer, Graphic Artist, Voice Actor and Anti-Fascist and maintains that being a nerdy iconoclast, and sustaining yourself on a steady diet of genre fiction, movies, television, comics, audiodrama, novels, videogames, and progressive activism is detrimental and corrosive to the personality and imagination, and not-so-humbly offers himself as an example.