Warren isn’t making climate change the centerpiece of her agenda, nor placing it in an “environmental” silo. Instead, she is using different parts of her agenda to address the climate crisis. She is making the policy case that climate change is a national security concern, an economic threat and opportunity, and the consequence of a violation of public trust. So rather than looking at every policy through the lens of climate change, Warren is looking at climate change through the lens of her other proposals.
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CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — With fake palm trees and a huge American flag as a backdrop, Senator Elizabeth Warren skipped onstage, microphone in hand, and barreled through her proposal to help rural America. In parting, she flapped her arms in a lightning-quick dance as Dolly Parton’s “Nine to Five” played her off.
“We’ve had enough of an America where government works better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top — 2020 is our chance,” Warren said to the crowd with her trademark bouncy energy.
Right behind her, former vice president Joe Biden trod to the microphone, note cards in hand, and delivered a somber rejoinder, casting President Trump as an existential threat to a grieving and divided nation.
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Through two rounds of debates, Biden and Warren have yet to face each other directly. But the tableau this weekend shows how they are circling each other ever more closely, at a time when Democratic voters are increasingly agonizing over which candidate is best suited to beat Trump, rather than which more perfectly fits their own politics.
And that question appears to become even more urgent after a painful summer of mass shootings and deeply divisive statements from Trump.
“It’s Biden’s best strength that, right now, people perceive he’s most electable,” said Grant Woodard, an attorney in Des Moines and former Democratic operative. “With Warren, she needs to overcome that. She needs to convince people of that, and if she does, I think she’ll win here.”
Interviews this weekend revealed some voters questioning the received wisdom about the safety of a Biden candidacy, as he commits gaffes and stumbles over some words, which could boost Warren or Senator Kamala Harris.
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If Trump were to debate Warren, said Steve Epperly, 74, “I think he would be wrestling a tiger there.”
“She’s got all her ducks in a row. She knows how to express herself. She doesn’t have to get real wordy about it,” Epperly said, adding that Biden “kind of floats off once in a while.”
Some voters at the Wing Ding were struck by the contrast between the 70-year-old Warren, with her high-energy policy treatises, and the 76-year-old Biden and his reflective reminder of the election’s stakes.
“He’s like, ‘words of wisdom.’ She’s like, ‘words of action,’” said Joyce Glover, 79, who traveled here from Wisconsin.
“He’s as old as we are. I know how tired you get at this age,” said her sister, Daisy McKinley, 76. She added Warren had displayed “so much more life and oomph.”
