Elizabeth Warren’s announcement this week that she’s seeking reelection didn’t come as a surprise, exactly. But it came a bit earlier than some political observers expected — hastened, perhaps, by rumors that Warren’s future plans didn’t involve sticking around the Senate.
Now that she’s made her intentions clear, what are Warren’s political prospects? And should potential Warren challengers be heartened by recent polling that suggests she’s a divisive figure among Massachusetts residents? Adam Reilly is joined by the Boston Globe’s Joan Vennochi and former Democratic congressional candidate Jesse Mermell, both of whom believe that Warren’s path to reelection is less daunting than the aforementioned poll numbers might suggest.
Vennochi, though, thinks Warren’s relatively weak standing with younger voters might be immune to the sort of tactics her Senate colleague Ed Markey, who's also in his seventies, deployed during his 2020 primary fight with then-Congressman Joe Kennedy.
“He put on a pair of sneakers and got endorsed by [Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and he was good to go with the kids," Vennochi said of Markey. "I’m not sure that any female politician of that vintage would get the same reaction.”
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