President Donald Trump is declaring that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden owes Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for helping stop Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-V.T., in the primary.
And Trump says the only way Biden can pay her back is by naming her as his Democratic running mate.
Warren must be Biden’s Vice President, Trump told New York Post.
Trump says that Warren is the sole reason that Biden became the presumptive 2020 nominee in the first place.
Trump’s statement echoes many political pundits who observed that Warren’s failing campaign –– and her refusal to exit the 2020 race –– peeled vital far-left voters from the Sanders campaign, who was Biden’s main rival.
Warren and Sanders ran on very similar far-left ideologies like free college, healthcare, and the $90 trillion Green New Deal.
And ultra-liberal voters, without a clear cut number one choice, ended up splitting votes between the two candidates.
This had paved the way for Biden, an establishment Democrat, to storm ahead in the primaries.
Trump says Biden owes Warren.
“She was responsible for his win,” Trump said, “so, therefore, I think he owes an obligation to pick Pocahontas,” he added, referring to Warren’s nickname. Warren falsely claimed to be a Native American for decades before apologizing last year.
“I think Elizabeth Warren is responsible for Joe Biden’s win because she didn’t drop out and Bernie would have won every single state on Super Tuesday,” Trump said.
“I think he should pick Elizabeth Warren because Elizabeth Warren, more than any other person, including [South Carolina Rep.] Jim Clyburn and including anybody you can name, is responsible for the win of Joe Biden,” he continued.
Trump is also echoing the sentiment of some political experts who said Biden did little himself to capture the Democratic primaries — the establishment did the work for him.
At the turning point in the South Carolina primary, it was Rep. Jim Clyburn’s, D-S.C., timely endorsement that singlehandedly revived the Biden campaign. The African-American demographic inside the state quickly fell in line behind the former Vice President.
Warren, who recently defended Biden against his sexual assault allegation, is one of many women “auditioning” to become Biden’s Vice President.
The Horn editorial team