Details: Even under the most optimistic scenario for Democrats — keeping the House and narrowly winning back the Senate from the Republicans — Warren wouldn’t have solid Democratic support for her biggest ideas, including the wealth tax, Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.
Her college debt plan would likely get a major rewrite from fellow Democrats, in a best case scenario.
They’re unlikely to go along with a full repeal of the GOP tax cut to set the stage for her corporate profits tax, according to Senate Democratic aides. And she’d have a solid wall of Republican opposition in the Senate, regardless of who wins the majority.
Warren’s answer to that problem is to eliminate the filibuster so Democrats can pass legislation with a simple majority — but she’d have a hard time doing that since some Democrats, like Kyrsten Sinema, say they’d never support it.
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