Elizabeth Warren’s Popularity Suffers After Clinton Endorsement

Since Elizabeth Warren endorsed Hillary Clinton, the Massachusetts senator has seen her social media popularity plummet. The senator has two Facebook pages: one for official business and another that is simply a public figure page. Both of those pages have suffered since she appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show on Thursday and endorsed Clinton.

Warren invoked Bernie Sanders as she sat across from Maddow and gave her reasons for supporting Clinton.

“I take my cue on every part of this from Bernie himself and what he said right from the beginning.. what this is about, what we’re doing here is about millions of people across this country, millions of people who work hard every day and just keep getting slammed.”

Her words, however, are a bitter pill to swallow for Sanders supporters and other progressives, who believe she has taken the easy way out. Throughout the primary cycle, Warren withheld her endorsement, waiting until it became clear that Clinton would clinch the nomination. She once said that she was “still cheering Bernie on,” and has overall been positive about his campaign. However, her refusal to come out and endorse him left millions of Sanders supporters feeling frustrated and betrayed.

On Warren’s non-Senate page, live statistics tracker Quintly showed her page with a negative growth per day. Because the statistics are live, they change constantly, but one thing is certain, Warren’s popularity is suffering after throwing her support behind Clinton. At one point, she was losing more than 20,000 followers per day. Her Facebook page has been contracting in the 10,000 to 20,000 range, with her losing an average of about 600 followers per hour.

Her Facebook likes have gone from 2,187,759 to 2,187,540 in a 30-minute period. And while she is still gaining followers, it appears that she is losing more.

Part of this could be a result of her Twitter war with Donald Trump, who many see as an easy target. In an earlier piece, Inquisitr writer Mohit Priyadarshi notes Nina Turner’s sharp criticism of Warren, who Turner claims essentially abandoned Bernie by withholding an endorsement.

Turner made a legitimate point when she called out Warren for criticizing Trump. He is an easy target. What would have made Warren much more heroic to Sanders supporters is if she had gone the extra step from merely praising Bernie to endorsing him as Nina Turner and former DNC Vice Chair Tulsi Gabbard did.

Both women did what Warren failed to do: Put their careers on the line to endorse the underdog populist.

While Warren was previously praised for taking on Trump in a months-long Twitter fight, she is now being criticized by progressives for not having the courage to endorse the candidate she most closely aligns with in the Senate.

On one of Warren’s Twitter feeds, she is also getting slammed with criticism. After Warren posted a photo of herself marching in a PRIDE parade celebrating LGBTQ rights, one of the first comments called her out for supporting Clinton, a woman who was against same-sex marriage for years.

“And you endorsed the homophobe who supported DOMA and outraged about @StateDept’s gender-neutral form. #Pride2016.”

Another user posted a gif of a classic movie of a woman stabbing someone to convey his annoyance with Warren’s endorsement of Clinton.

In January, Warren gave a speech hinting at support for Bernie Sanders. On the Senate floor she made an obvious reference to Clinton’s “change is hard” position.

“Anyone who shrugs and claims that change is just too hard has crawled into bed with the billionaires who want to run this country like some private club.”

Warren’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton is seen as the ultimate hypocrisy among Sanders progressives, and her January speech that was aimed at Clinton is being thrown back in her face by those accusing her of being just another establishment Democrat.

It might have gone better for Warren, had she just simply endorsed Clinton months ago instead of making contradictory statements and engaging in what amounts to a middle school-level Twitter war with Donald Trump.

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