WASHINGTON – Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Sunday she thinks Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be the Democrats’ pick for president — and that’s great news for President Trump.
“The only person who has been on a steady incline and continuing to gain momentum and gain support seems to be Elizabeth Warren,” Huckabee Sanders said on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 New York.
“There couldn’t be better news for President Trump,” Huckabee Sanders told host John Catsimatidis. “I think that it will certainly help re-elect the president.”
The former chief spokesperson, who announced her White House departure in June, cheered the Democrats’ lean to the left.
Democratic candidates “are so beholden to this left-wing part of the party — the AOC or ‘The Squad’ — that they’re trying to appease them,” she said.
“I think it’s going to be impossible to come back to the middle and try to regain some of those independent voters,” she continued. “Elizabeth Warren, I don’t think she wants to come back to the middle. I think she believes that the far left side is right. I think it’s a scary thing for America if she becomes president.”
Warren has partnered with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in some issue areas, a possible sign that she’d like the freshman New York Democrat’s endorsement.
The Massachusetts senator has toppled Biden in several recent polls, but the Real Clear Politics polling average still has the ex-veep 6.5 points ahead. Warren may also have trouble after Iowa and New Hampshire as a new South Carolina poll, out Sunday, showed her 21 points behind Biden — and that he leads substantially in black voter support.