Elizabeth Warren is on a roll, but still facing big obstacles in 2020 presidential bid
DAVENPORT, Iowa - The polls may be middling, the fundraising so-so, but Elizabeth Warren has one key asset in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination - a campaign plan more clearly defined than that of just about any other candidate.
While many of her rivals are recalibrating their strategies and looking for new ways to stand out in a huge field largely eclipsed by former Vice President Joe Biden, Warren is pressing ahead, tortoise and hare style.
She is unfurling one carefully honed policy proposal after another - child care, student debt relief, a tax on giant fortunes, combating opioid addiction.
"I've got a plan for that!" is her stump speech mantra.
Warren has also invested heavily in campaign staff in Iowa and other states with early primaries. She has a crisp, unchanging populist message rooted in years of arguing, as a professor and politician, that the government now works for people with money and
