The meeting started more than forty minutes late. Officially because Elizabeth Warren went to greet her fans who were unable to enter the superb kitschy Brooklyn theater that sold out on Tuesday evening. Much more likely, because the progressive candidate was waiting to hear about the Iranian strikes on the bases where American forces are stationed in Iraq.
The Massachusetts senator dispatched the matter starting with "A sober note" : thoughts for American soldiers and their families. “This reminds us that we need to have a de-escalation of tension. The Americans do not want a war in Iran. " And then that's all. Like her supporters interviewed before the meeting, the candidate does not really want to talk about foreign policy.
The concern is to beat Donald Trump. With new ideas. "If all the Democrats can offer is business as usual after Donald Trump, the Democrats will lose", warned the Democratic presidential nomination candidate for November who concluded her meeting with a "2020 is our moment in history". Really ? The moment Warren seems a little past: it is regressing in the polls and struggling to raise funds, while his rival, the progressive Bernie Sanders, has taken the lead, despite his heart attack, supported by the muse of the left wing of the party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“It's part of the campaign, managing the ups and downs. When one is president, one must also do it ”, wants to believe David Callaghan, 62, retired from Wall Street. Above all, less than a month from the Iowa Caucus, which will launch the real primary, everything remains uncertain. "What momentum?, wonders James Park, 56, an architect of South Korean origin. When (Barack) Obama broke through, there was a momentum. Same when the women took to the streets after the election of Donald Trump or during metoo. There, there is none for any candidate. They're too many ", says Park, who supports former New York mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
No obvious champion
The meeting revealed a little the dismay of the democrats without obvious champion. Willa Hernandez, 28, supports Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, but came to join the rally of Julian Castro, 45, a former Obama housing minister who has just left the Democratic nomination race: "I am Latin, I would dream that a Latin would be elected. Elizabeth Warren is the first candidate for wealthy white women, not Latinos. " Willa Hernandez believes that the senator does not understand the working classes, despite her modest origins, and speaks from Harvard, of which she was a teacher. Similarly, Alicia Shaw, a 40-year-old African American, does not feel "Not very connected" to Mme Warren and made the trip because she supported Julian Castro.
