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Where Does Elizabeth Warren Actually Stand in the Race?

She still draws impressive crowds, but the senator’s Brooklyn rally showed a candidate approaching a crossroads.
Source: Bebeto Matthews / AP

Sitting inside the cavernous Brooklyn auditorium where Senator Elizabeth Warren rallied before 3,000 cheering fans last night, you’d never have known that an Iranian retaliatory strike had brought the United States one step closer to another war in the Middle East. Nor would you have guessed that the candidate these people had waited, in some cases, more than four hours to see had recently lost her lead in the Democratic-primary polls and had found herself suddenly on the outer edge of the top tier less than a month before the primary season kicks off in Iowa.

For a while at least, Kings Theatre seemed to be an to hear from the Democrat who was then surging to the front-runner’s perch.

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