{"id":35652,"date":"2019-02-11T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35652"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:14:37","slug":"lock-him-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/lock-him-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lock Him Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of the energy surrounding the 2020 presidential campaign is focused on opposition to Donald Trump.  That, in my opinion, is an error.  Democrats need to focus, not on what he says, but on what we are doing.  Elizabeth Warren was trying to make that point, when she suggested that Trump might be in jail in 2020.  The crowd went wild!  But is locking him up by then a good idea?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Countless Democratic leaders have urged the party not to spend the 2020 campaign tangling with President Trump over tweets and taunts. But Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts made a novel argument on Sunday for ignoring the president: He could soon be in jail. <\/p>\n

Addressing a crowd of several hundred at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ms. Warren said it was up to Democrats to decide whether they would spend every day parrying \u201ca racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly\u201d from the president. She said the party should ask: \u201cAre we going to let him use those to divide us?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president,\u201d Ms. Warren said. \u201cIn fact, he may not even be a free person.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Prodded by reporters to explain the remark a few hours later in Iowa City, Ms. Warren said she was simply noting the proliferation of inquiries into the president… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a video clip from TIME<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n