How the sting of an Elizabeth Warren defeat felt different for young women

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Warren’s candidacy struck an all-too-familiar note for many as hopes faded for a highly qualified contender: ‘What more could she have done?’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/21/elizabeth-warren-young-women-us-elections

After boasting one of the most diverse fields of candidates in recent history, Democrats are left to choose between the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and the former vice-president Joe Biden – two white men in their late 70s.

For women, the blow has been particularly hard.

With the congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard leaving the race on Thursday, the final woman has exited from a contest that once included senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand, plus the health guru Marianne Williamson. Together the six women represented the left and center lanes of the party, spanned the nation from Hawaii to Massachusetts and hailed from the private sector as well as public life. They were young, old and in between.

For many Democratic women it was the failure of the Warren campaign that has hit especially hard.