Bernie Sanders Is Targeting Elizabeth Warren In Her Home State

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have long been seen as friendly competitors vying for the same base of support, with Warren entering the race being seen as a tough blow to Sanders' presidential aspirations. However, as the race has heated up Warren has repeatedly attacked Sanders for supposedly not being a unifying figure within the party, has gone after his supporters and their supposed bad behaviour online and has more recently said that she would be a better president than Sanders as she would be able to get more done while in office.

The Primary race first begun with the two rarely saying a bad word about each other, referring to each other as friends. Warren repeatedly claimed that she was with Sanders on all of the big progressive issues such as Medicare for All, getting money out of politics and a Green New Deal.

This is mainly due to the fact that for much of the race both Sanders and Warren had to attack the front-runner at the time, Joe Biden. Biden was the target for many attacks prior to any actual primary contests, but since disappointing finishes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Biden is having to try his best to hold onto second place.

Since the first three contests, Sanders is the clear front-runner and Elizabeth Warren has had to try a different strategy in order to take him down, which has involved direct attacks in advertisements, during the debates and in news interviews.

Since Sanders has become the one to beat, Warren has ramped up her attacks. Claiming that Sanders is funded by several dark money groups, is leading an online army of so-called 'Bernie Bros', has no idea how to implement his plans and wouldn't be the Democrats best candidate to defeat Donald Trump.

However, none of these attacks have worked and Sanders is still on top while Warren has slipped to the middle of the pack. Warren has since had to completely change her policies in order to contrast herself with Sanders, beginning to lose support once her convoluted plan to pay for her Medicare for All proposal raised eyebrows among progressives, with many believing that she wouldn't fight as hard for the policy as Sanders would.

Ever since then Warren has been turning into everything she claimed to hate at the beginning of the race. Her healthcare proposal has now become a glorified public option, she recently became the candidate with the largest super PAC in the primary field after previously swearing off super PACs, she repeatedly attacked Sanders on his ability to defeat Donald Trump in a general election and she has attempted to make a case that she is the unity candidate the whole Democratic Party can coalesce around.

The problem with Warren's unity case is that she has no chance of winning any states in the primary, she currently has a high chance of losing her own home state which is an electoral disaster for a candidate, an embarrassment even.

By contrast, Sanders leads in his home state of Vermont by 38 points, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is currently leading her home state by six points, although Sanders is making huge strides to also win the Minnesota primary. Warren losing her home state could be a campaign ending moment.

Recent media talking heads have taken aim at Sanders for attempting to win Massachusetts, with an MSNBC analyst claiming that Sanders was "targeting his female competitors", or maybe, just maybe, he's trying to win a national primary that requires winning as many states and as many delegates as possible?