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Progressives Dreaming of a Warren/Sanders Ticket 

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With former Vice President Joe Biden still maintaining a lead in many polls, some of the more “progressive” elements of the Democratic Party are dreaming of a scenario in which some combination of Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), two icons of the far left in America, would join forces to run as president and vice president against Donald Trump in November.

A New York Times piece from December 16 posits that the two far-left candidates are cancelling each other out among the more progressive wing of the party, which could lead the party to settle for a more centrist option such as Biden. Some Democrats are urging them to form a coalition, where either Sanders or Warren drops out and endorses the other in exchange for a vice presidential nod. Some are urging both to stay in the race all the way to the end so that they might, essentially, pool their collective delegates and lay claim to the Democratic nomination.

The potential combination has some far-left Democrats salivating and seeing a new Democratic Party coming out of the union. “The two of them could usher in a progressive era for the next decade,” said Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Khanna went on to compare the possible merger to that of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the 1990s. “[Clinton and Gore] doubled down on a bet for a centrist version of the party. This would be a bet on a progressive vision for the party.”

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