Elizabeth Warren campaign autopsy

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Her standing slipped after her campaign hired staffers from the Hillary Clinton 2016 and Kamala Harris 2020 campaigns. They advised Warren to focus more on identity politics and less on economic issues. That was what caused Kamala Harris to tank previously, and it repeated itself with Warren. Additionally, Warren could have taken Biden down by continuously highlighting the fact that her entry into politics was motivated by policies that Biden had supported - but she instead pulled her punches with Biden and allowed him to skate by mostly unscathed (if she had taken a page from Obama’s 2008 book against Hillary Clinton, she could have sunk Biden for good and prevented him from being the establishment’s choice candidate - if it was Sanders and Warren polling at 1 and 2 with others polling well behind those two, the establishment would have coalesced around Warren against Sanders).