Warren’s decision not to endorse a candidate is a kind of endorsement

She wanted to be the Tin Lizzie of the presidential race, chugging to victory as the champion of the middle-class. But her campaign started running out of gas before it could even really get on the straightaway. Today the denouement arrives. Elizabeth Warren will announce that she’s packing it in. Will she endorse either Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden? Or will she, like Barack Obama, wait until the victor has been anointed?

Intense and cerebral, Warren came across during the debates not as a nutty professor but a hectoring schoolmarm. She wanted to be Sanders-lite but the left wasn’t buying. ‘Here’s my advice: cast a vote that will make you proud,’ she said on Super Tuesday. ‘Cast a vote from your heart. Vote for the person you think will make the best president of the United States.’ Her advice fell on deaf ears. Voters seem to have picked the person they figured had the best shot at ousting Trump, which is indisputably former vice president Joe Biden.