Warren says she’s best positioned to beat Trump

THE MOST RECENT on the 2020 Democratic presidential race and Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire.

Elizabeth Warren is tweaking her standard campaign speech, saying that she’s in the very best position to win what some see as an “unwinnable” election for any Democrat against President Donald Trump.

Warren finished third in last week’s Iowa caucus, which was too near to call between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. She has also refused to say that New Hampshire’s primary on Tuesday is a must win, despite the fact that she’s a senator from neighboring Massachusetts.

Still, at a rally at a higher school in Lebanon, New Hampshire, on Sunday night, Warren referenced her then-upset win in 2012 over Republican incumbent Sen. Scott Brown. Warren noted that polls for the reason that race once showed her down by 19 points but she ultimately won comfortably.

She said such contests are “only unwinnable in the event that you don’t enter the fight” adding, “2020, we’re in this fight and we’re going to win it.”

Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer says he'd require a $22 hourly minimum wage if elected president.

The billionaire climate activist made that call during a campaign block party on Sunday afternoon in Winnsboro, SC. Others in the field have needed a rise to $17 one hour.

The town around 23,000 off Interstate 77 has endured a number of economic struggles recently, and its unemployment is typically among the best in the state.

Steyer is making a play for SC, where former Vice President Joe Biden has traditionally led polling.

But Steyer has been spending millions on television set advertising and is campaigning here this week as all of those other field stumps in New Hampshire. Steyer says he sees success in the diverse states of Nevada and SC as critical to primary success.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has largely avoided attacks from her key presidential rivals lately - but doesn’t see an edge for anybody in them.

Talking with reporters after a rally in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday, Warren said, “Look, we’re likely to need to bring our party together to be able to beat Donald Trump.”

She added: “And just how we do this is not by launching a couple of attacks on the other person and trying to tear each other down.”

The Massachusetts senator spent months criticizing Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, over holding fundraisers with wealthy donors which were for months closed to the press.

But lately Warren has tried to stress party unity. She said Sunday that Democratic prospects should “discuss the things we are able to run on together.”

New Hampshire is practically Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s backyard. So much in order that she mistakenly thought she was home while campaigning there.

Throughout a rally at a higher school in the brand new Hampshire state capital of Concord on Sunday, Warren declared, “It’s up to you, Massachusetts.”

The crowd immediately reacted with chuckles and yelling out corrections. Warren corrected herself with fun, saying, “And to the persons of New Hampshire. Many thanks.”

Warren has refused to call New Hampshire a must-win during Tuesday’s primary, despite it bordering Massachusetts. She told reporters following the event, “There are 55 more states or territories following this. It appears like it’s going to be considered a long battle to the nomination.”

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she’s plans to keep defying expectations heading into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

Though she’s spent the this past year behind the front-runners, Klobuchar has enjoyed a burst of momentum within the last few days because of a strong debate performance and infusion of cash. At a rally at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester on Sunday, her campaign primarily create about 250 chairs, then removed them to make room for a room-capacity crowd of more than 700.

Klobuchar said she’s had an “incredible journey” within the last couple of days, and expects to accomplish well in New Hampshire since it is “grassroots” territory where voters really listen.

The head of the Democratic National Committee says that after the 2020 election is over, the national party will review whether state parties ought to be running elections.

That word from DNC Chairman Tom Perez follows the vote count problems in the Iowa caucuses from last Monday.

Perez tells ABC’s “This Week” that Iowa might have avoided problems if it had held a primary run by state elections officials, instead of a caucus run by volunteers and the party.

He says he’s excited “to the conversation” about state parties getting “out of the business of running elections.”

Iowa’s leadoff caucuses ended in disarray after a technical problem and a telephone logjam prevented the Iowa Democratic Party from compiling results soon after the caucuses ended.

It took until Thursday for the state party to issue what it said are complete results. The Associated Press says it’s struggling to declare a winner predicated on the available information. The AP believes the results as reported by the Iowa Democratic Party may not be fully accurate

Perez says the Democratic Party will review whether Iowa should keep its status being the first in the country to cast votes.

Democratic presidential prospect Bernie Sanders insists he doesn’t want to “denigrate” rival Pete Buttigieg, but Sanders is pointing out to supporters in New Hampshire why he thinks Buttigieg shouldn’t be the party’s nominee.

During an appearance in Plymouth, Sanders started out by calling Buttigieg “my pal.” That draw a loud laugh from a Sanders supporters.

Then Sanders said: “We’re not here to denigrate Pete, he’s owning a good campaign, but our views will vary.”

Sanders said a candidate like Buttigieg who takes campaign contributions from drug company executives or “Wall Street tycoons” won’t endure “the organization elite.”

Sanders has made similar criticisms previously about how exactly his rivals raise money. But his pointed remarks toward Buttigieg comes as Sanders fights to win the brand new Hampshire primary in two days.

Democratic presidential prospect Joe Biden is playing down the notion that his lagging finish in the Iowa caucuses will hurt his electability.

The former vice president tells New Hampshire voters that rivals Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders were “better organized than we were in Iowa.”

Biden is stressing that voters should treat the first four early voting states “as you.” New Hampshire, which holds its primary, may be the second early voting state, followed by Nevada and SC.

The New Hampshire contests includes two candidates whom Biden describes to voters as coming “from the two states next door to you.″ It’s a reference to Sanders, who’s a Vermont senator, and Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator.

Biden is time for the city hall format New Hampshire voters tend to pride themselves on. Before Sunday, Biden had skipped taking questions from the crowds at his New Hampshire events in January and February. Biden instead focused on greeting supporters on the rope line at these events.