Trump campaign denotes new threat: Elizabeth Warren

The re-election machine of President Donald Trump is interested in a new target, which she left for dead just a few months ago: Elizabeth Warren.

As the Massachusetts senator gets up in the polls and sends out a populist message threatening to destroy the president's blue-collar base, the Trump campaign forms its firepower over Warren with the goal of slowing his momentum.

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Trump's assistants and their allies on the Republican National Committee, who originally believed that their money and manpower were better targeted elsewhere, were digging opposition research, deploying tracking devices using cameras, and are preparing to call Warren a liberal extremist. Warren's reassessment, confirmed in conversations with more than half a dozen Trump advisers, reflects the instability of the great Democratic primary and the reaction of the reelection campaign.

Trump's team – including the president himself – had focused almost exclusively on Joe Biden at this point. But the rise of Warren now suggests that it could pose a serious threat in a general election. Trump's advisers admit that Warren's disciplined style, his populist-infused rhetoric, and his perceived ability to defeat suburban voters have competed.

Pollster John McLaughlin, of the election campaign, sounded the alarm internally, pointing out that Warren's attacks on Trump threatened to undermine the support of working-class voters who had propelled him to the United States. Presidency.

"Although our own first published and internal polls pushed aside Elizabeth Warren, her recent momentum in May and June in the national caucus and early caucus and in the primary states, becoming a strong second place behind Joe Biden, deserves the credit. Be careful of our campaign, "wrote McLaughlin. in a text message to POLITICO.

"Sen. Warren's attacks on President Trump's policies must be refuted, "said McLaughlin. "We can not allow him to continue attacking the president in key states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and elsewhere."

Biden will always receive a significant share of the campaign's attention. But Trump's aides say that they are less certain that it will be their eventual opponent.

The re-election campaign began for the first time to take note of Warren's momentum several weeks ago, when polls showed that she was winning a lot on Biden and Sanders. They were surprised earlier this month when Tucker Carlson, a Trump-friendly Fox News TV host, used the opening monologue on his show to congratulate the Liberal senator.

Warren's populist economic agenda, says Carlson, "looks like Donald Trump at his best."

Other pro-Trump Republican groups also pay more attention to Warren. The GOP oppo search facility, America Rising, has put Warren in the top of the list of Democratic candidates and will prioritize the traceability of his campaigns. Meanwhile, the RNC has recently issued a press release drawing attention to a radio interview in which Warren was pressuring his earlier claims of Native American ancestry.

But Trump's help provides for a roadblock that will go far beyond the heritage issue, which has been at the center of Trump's taunts and shifts. They are about to delve into his past as a teacher and try to separate his list of proposals for political acts.

"There is no doubt that Elizabeth Warren is running, has the wind in her sails and could well become our adversary," said Tim Murtaugh, spokesman for Trump 2020. "We need to make sure that voters are aware of its proposals for government health care, free health care for illegal immigrants, radical environmental restrictions and increased taxes – all of which will devastate our country. "

A spokesman for Warren did not respond to a request for comment.

Warren is reborn after a painful campaign deployment. Trump attacked her mercilessly after she published a DNA test that was trying to end the controversy over her blood lines to reveal that she was between 1/64 and 1/1024 Native Americans. .

During an appearance in his seaside resort of Mar-a-Lago in March, the president lamented to the donors that he had eliminated Warren too early from the race and that he should have kept his shots for later. At a rally organized in Wisconsin at the end of April, the president said Warren was "finished."

In the weeks that followed, however, the anti-Wall Street crusader made a turnaround with a litany of political plans, an uninterrupted campaign schedule, and an incisive populist message.

In the last national survey of Quinnipiac University, Warren was at 15%, just behind Sanders for second place. And in polls released this week in California and Nevada – two key states that voted in late February and early March respectively – Warren outstripped Sanders, just following Biden.

The last point of view of the Trump campaign is that Warren has a more consistent message and a liberal audience more passionate than Biden, whom they regard as supportive as sweet. "It's in politics that the Democratic Party has moved," said Raj Shah, Trump's campaign advisor. "She is ready to get more support as Bernie fades and Biden erodes."

Biden and his supporters, however, are convinced that the Democratic electorate is more centrist than the forecasters think.

Not everyone agrees that pursuing Warren is the right decision. Some Trump associates claim that his liberal positions would make him an easier opponent in the general election and that they should refrain from attacking him. Others, however, believe that it is impossible to guess the level of eligibility of a particular candidate and that the Democratic candidate – whoever he may be – must be defined well in advance of next year's convention.

Trump himself seems to recognize Warren's new strength.

"Now I see that Pocahontas is getting better," said the president during a Friday morning appearance on Fox News, using his favorite nickname of the Massachusetts senator. "I'd like to run against her frankly."