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Elizabeth Warren Candidacy May Cost Dems Senate Seats

How big of a disaster is Elizabeth Warren’s radical socialist candidacy? Even the candidacy alone is choking off the money that the Democrats need to take and hold Senate seats.

Some finance executives have recently told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that they are, for the moment, holding back from donating to Democrats running for Senate in 2020 due to their concerns with Warren becoming a front-runner in the race for the party’s presidential nomination, according to people familiar with the conversations. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the private nature of the talks.

The move is intended to put pressure on party leadership and Schumer, who represents New York and has received millions of dollars in donations from Wall Street, to distance themselves from Warren’s economic populism.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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