Elizabeth Warren's path to victory

How the ascendant candidate can consolidate her position as the Democratic front-runner

Elizabeth Warren.
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It is not news that I think Elizabeth Warren is the best person for the Democrats to nominate for president in 2020: the best bet to unite the party, to lead it to victory in the general election, and to be a successful president once in office. I made my case back in October of last year, and I've seen no reason to change my mind.

That doesn't mean I think Warren has done everything right since then. I think she's running a real risk in positioning herself so far to the left on such a wide range of issues (particularly immigration). And she obviously handled the question of her claims to Cherokee ancestry very poorly. But every candidate makes mistakes and errors in judgment. The question is not whether she's doing everything perfectly but whether she is demonstrating the overall qualities that make her a strong nominee, and a potential president. She most assuredly has done that.

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Noah Millman

Noah Millman is a screenwriter and filmmaker, a political columnist and a critic. From 2012 through 2017 he was a senior editor and featured blogger at The American Conservative. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Politico, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Modern Age, First Things, and the Jewish Review of Books, among other publications. Noah lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.