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Sabato’s Crystal Ball Says Elizabeth Warren Would Likely Win A 2024 Primary Challenge For U.S. Senate

February 24, 2023

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) is running for re-election in the United States Senate next year.

Could someone take her down in the Democratic primary?

Election forecaster Sabato’s Crystal Ball says probably not.

Here is its analysis of the race:

 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would likely be fine in a primary, although Politico’s Massachusetts Playbook did recently float Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D, MA-4) and Ayanna Pressley (D, MA-7) as possible challengers. Both suggested that they weren’t interested. Massachusetts was the site of a big Senate primary in 2020, when Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) fended off then-Rep. Joe Kennedy III by a little over 10 points (Auchincloss succeeded Kennedy in the House). With memories of that divisive 2020 primary still fresh in the minds of state Democrats, there simply may not be much appetite for a Warren challenge — as with Markey, she has not committed any obvious partisan apostasies.

 

If Warren successfully runs for re-election, it would grant her a third term in the United States Senate.

 

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