… Sanders and Warren have clear differences in style, emphasis and attitude toward our political systems that have helped them cultivate different, rather than interchangeable, bases of support in the 2020 primary. If either progressive wants to win in 2020, they need to do more than try to pick up the other’s voters. And Warren seems to have a better grasp on that reality than Sanders. …
Warren’s progressivism is such that it allows her to walk the line between insider and outsider. She’s been a Democrat for her entire career in electoral politics and seems to focus more on having “a plan for that” than starting a full revolution. But she shows what seems like a genuine dislike for Wall Street, pharmaceutical companies and the other normal targets of left populism. That stylistic mix shows up in the polls: Warren’s coalition is made up of a combination of those who supported Sanders in 2016 and those who preferred Hillary Clinton. CONT.
David Byler, Washington Post