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Jean Guerrero: Elizabeth Warren knows how Democrats can win the midterms. It starts with canceling student loan debt

Elizabeth Warren may have found the right-wing Achilles' heel. Sitting in the back patio of Los Angeles coffee shop Bricks and Scones, the Massachusetts senator described what she views as a main GOP vulnerability heading into November's midterm elections. She wore a gray North Face jacket, her intense blue eyes periodically drifting to my notebook where I scribbled points. "The Republicans ...
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Elizabeth Warren may have found the right-wing Achilles' heel.

Sitting in the back patio of Los Angeles coffee shop Bricks and Scones, the Massachusetts senator described what she views as a main GOP vulnerability heading into November's midterm elections. She wore a gray North Face jacket, her intense blue eyes periodically drifting to my notebook where I scribbled points.

"The Republicans have no ideas," Warren told me. "They have no plans for how to make this a country that works better for anyone. No economic ideas, no ways to increase opportunity. Their well has run dry."

Warren, a former for her plans. Her 2020 presidential campaign was dominated by her promoting paradigm-shifting, once-obscure ideas such as . Before, she was in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As Republicans fight culture wars, she believes Democrats can win if they ignore that bait and show they're the party of plans that work.

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