Enter Elizabeth Warren, who has premised her 2020 presidential campaign on a simple idea -- captured nicely by Time magazine in its cover story on the Massachusetts senator this week: " 'I have a plan for that': Democrat Elizabeth Warren is betting Americans are ready for her big ideas." Warren struggled in the early days of her presidential campaign to get beyond the seemingly never-ending controversy over her Native American heritage claims. Because for all of the pleading from Democrats for their candidates to just talk policy, policy, policy, history suggests that elections -- especially presidential ones -- are won by charismatic candidates with very broad proposals (as opposed to laser-specific ones) on how to make the country better. Look no further than the last Democratic president. None of that is to say that these candidates -- Obama, O'Rourke and Buttigieg -- don't talk policy.

Source: CNN May 09, 2019 18:33 UTC