She does get at the sexism she herself faced and vowed to address the day she ended her campaign. She strikes both at what she sees as his entitlement - at coming into the race four primary contests late with mountains of self-funding - as well as his reported treatment of women throughout his career. In Persist, as in debates, Warren unleashes blistering assaults upon him. The only fellow Democratic candidate she has many unkind words for is Mike Bloomberg. In this way, Persist is very much a book of the 2021 Democratic Party - still factionalizing between liberal and moderate but working like hell to remain unified and get things done. Lingering, gnawing bitterness at the fact that progressives lost the nomination to the centrist-running Biden? Nope. The fact that she weathered far more criticism for it than Sanders (who penned the plan, without himself releasing detailed pay-fors until later)? Not really. The attacks on Warren for not initially having a plan to pay for "Medicare for All"? That's there. Mayor Pete's wine-cave dinner? Again, a passing mention.
She's good at it, as you might expect from a law professor. Warren uses this to explain why she believes in making abortion accessible.Īnother way to put all this is that Warren lays out a case, over and over. In the campaign photo line, an Indiana woman tells Warren about the agony of finding an abortion for her 14-year-old, who was raped by her coach. The point in telling this: She's contrite, she knows it was a dumb mistake - but she also parlays it into a broader point about the importance of white people trying to learn more about race in America. The upshot for Warren is the gendered, economic inequality baked into America's families.Ĭandidate Warren takes an ill-fated DNA test to show her Native American roots. It's campaign-trail Warren, in book form.Ī woman from Warren's bankruptcy research quits her teaching job to raise kids and has her life upended by her children's medical bills - and then divorce.
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Her campaign speeches were a series of one-two punches: stories that got people right in their feels - and then policy prescriptions to make sure no one else ever had to, for example, rely on an Aunt Bee. President Biden did the opposite - bringing his voice low, forcing folks ("folks!") to quiet down as he sermonized on what he saw as the grave problems with Donald Trump's presidency. Bernie Sanders pumped up his crowds, shouting to the point of hoarseness with indignation at economic inequality. You can hear on the tape what happened when Warren delivered that line: The crowd (and, more pointedly, it sounds like it was mainly the women in the crowd) whooped with joy.Įvery semi-successful presidential candidate has the Speech Thing they do well. after which, Aunt Bee moves to Houston for 16 years. If you ever heard this stump speech, you know the punchline: Aunt Bee hears her niece's desperation for child care and responds, "I can't come tomorrow, but I can come Thursday". Young Elizabeth tries to stay strong - and then bursts into tears. One day, her Aunt Bee in Oklahoma calls and asks how it's going. Warren told the story of being a single mother and law school professor in Houston, struggling to do her job and take care of two small children.
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