It was a long and winding rollercoaster ride for Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail. And when that ride ended, everybody who planted their feet back on earth was a little nauseous.
Warren, the two-term senator from Massachusetts and anti-bank regulator with a work ethic and professor’s aura, reassessed the state of her campaign today and determined that it was time to get out of the race with dignity. Warren’s team expected to finish in second place in a number of states on ‘Super Tuesday’, which would have given her an excuse to stay in the race – as she increased her delegate count. Instead, she ended up in a terrible position; reaching 15 per cent in only five out of 14 contests, and finishing in third-place in her own state of Massachusetts. Even Warren’s own campaign manager, the chief spinmeister of her operation, admitted that Super Tuesday was a major disappointment for the campaign.
Warren began her campaign last year as the candidate who would not only represent the average American struggling to pay the electricity bill at the end of the month, but also the candidate who could use magical superpowers to strike down the hedge-funders, billionaires, and insurance executives of corporate America.
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