What happened to Elizabeth Warren?

Instead, Warren delivered a plea for party unity, which she suggested could somehow be achieved in the middle of a deeply fractious nomination battle. The Democratic Party could be “headed for another one of those long primary fights that last for months,” she said. Battling between factions has “taken a sharp turn in recent weeks,” she noted, a development that threatens the future of the party. And then she said the solution was…Elizabeth Warren. “Our campaign is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November — because we can unite our party.”

So Warren is still in. She has the organization and money to keep going at least for a few more states. But to what end?

For a while three months ago, Warren, senator from neighboring Massachusetts, led the polls in New Hampshire. Since then, her trajectory has been down, down, down. What has been remarkable about the last week is how seldom she was mentioned when politicos discussed the latest in primary news. The story was the durability of Sanders’ lead, or Buttigieg’s surge, or the nearly-as-big surge from Klobuchar. Perhaps biggest of all was the implosion of Joe Biden, who led the RealClearPolitics average of New Hampshire polls as recently as January 15.

But nothing about Warren. In some parts of New Hampshire, it seemed as if she did not exist.