Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Gaining traction, coming to Seattle

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on a roll in the polls, will bring her presidential campaign to Seattle on Sunday with a town hall at the WaMu Theater at 800 Occidental Ave. S. The doors open at 12:15 p.m., the event begins at 2:15 p.m.

Warren has held more than 100 town halls in her campaign, and is approaching 40,000 selfies with supporters.

All the way back to the 1950s, Washington's Democratic liberals have fallen in love with a presidential candidate every four years. Bernie Sanders won their hearts in the 2016 campaign cycle with a series of big rallies that began in the summer of 2015.

Sanders was all over the state in 2016, but curiously has failed to come back in the 2020 campaign cycle. Leading supporters have moved to Warren. She was runaway winner when King County Young Democrats staged a watch party for the first candidates' debate.

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Warren is surging. A Fox News poll, released Friday, showed her in second place behind Joe Biden among Democratic hopefuls. Biden scored 31%, Warren 20% and Sanders just 10%.

A similar poll in March had Sanders at 23%, with Warren at just 4%. In July, he had 15% to her 12%.

Aides in Warren's campaign have printed up T-shirts saying: "I have a plan for that." She has released detailed programs, ranging from breaking up high tech companies to using a tax on the very wealthy to pay for students' college tuition.

Warren has been here before, as featured speaker at Sen. Patty Murray's annual Golden Tennis Shoes awards luncheon.

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She most recently captured the annual Netroots Nation conference, the nation's largest assembly of activist bloggers from the liberal left. Sanders did an early appearance four years ago, but was not seen this year.

Warren and Sanders are personal friends, each avoiding speaking a negative word about the other.

But one is likely to emerge as the candidate of the left. Biden has held steady at 31% in present and previous Fox News polls. The combined Warren/Sanders total in the latest survey comes to 30%.

The choices made by Washington liberals, from Adlai Stevenson to Bernie Sanders, have not made it to the White House.

But Sanders dominated the state's 2016 precinct caucuses and its delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

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The state's Democrats will use a March primary to determine delegate allocation in 2020.

Biden has been through for two private pricey fundraisers, South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg drew 1,100 people for a low-budget event at the Showbox Theater.

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington has not registered in any recent poll of presidential candidates, and faces an uphill battle to be on stage in the third debate in September.