It’s become something of a rallying cry for Elizabeth Warren: “I got a plan!” she told crowds in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas, last month, to uproarious cheers. The Massachusetts Senator, currently sitting a distant third or fourth in recent surveys of Democratic voters, has staked her claim to the presidency on a slew of detailed proposals addressing everything from student-loan debt to racial disparities in maternal mortality rates, articulating considered solutions to problems that most of her opponents have merely identified. Her latest pitch? A $100 billion plan revealed Wednesday to combat the opioid epidemic that would provide resources to local governments, particularly the communities that have been hit hardest by the crisis, that would be paid for by her proposed “ultra millionaire tax.”“Too many folks in Washington care more about protecting the wealthy from paying their fair share than they do about solving these kinds of urgent national problems,” she said in a Medium post. “I want to change that.”

Warren’s newest proposal comes ahead of campaign stops in West Virginia and Ohio, states hit hard by the epidemic, and is the 13th policy she’s announced since February. Her proposals have been notable not just for their degree of detail—her plan to erase student-loan debt included a personalized online calculator—but also for their boldness. She’s staked out clear positions on an array of issues, including some that are controversial even within her own party. For instance, while Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats have shied away from impeachment talk, Warren has called for the president to be held accountable for the misdeeds outlined in Robert Mueller’s report. “This is not about politics,” she said on the Senate floor Tuesday, after calling for Trump’s impeachment on Twitter. “This is about the Constitution.”

Such direct positions stand in stark contrast not only with Trump, whose grasp of policy mechanics is at a sub-Fox & Friends level, but with fellow 2020 contenders, including those leading in the polls. Joe Biden, the current frontrunner, is so far fueled by a broad promise to save American democracy from Trump. Bernie Sanders is one of the most visible champions of the kinds of progressive ideas Warren is running on, but hasn’t yet offered the same level of detail when it comes to execution. And Pete Buttigieg has billed himself as the face of generational change, but has been thin on policy—something he’s “being a perfectionist about,” he said, promising “more text-based things” on his website soon.

It’s still early, meaning other 2020 candidates have plenty of time to articulate policy via “text-based things” or “speech-based things” or maybe even “Power Point-based things”. But it’s notable that Warren has been doing this for months already, leading the policy debate at a time when many aspirants can’t seem to articulate exactly why they’re running, let alone why they should win.

Warren’s unambiguous positions haven’t helped her much in the polls so far, and may not track with establishment Democrats’ desires to play it safe against Trump by tacking to the center. But her relatively low polling could change once she has the chance to lay out her plans on the debate stage, particularly if her colleagues’ allergy to specifics come to seem like a crutch. There’s also an argument to be made that the candidate with the best shot at beating Trump isn’t the one who seems most “electable”, but the one who runs on a bold, unapologetic platform—and can back it up. Perhaps the best way to beat a president who draws out his policies with a damn crayon is to put forth someone with clear ideas. Of course, she’s not totally alone: Kamala Harris has a plan to increase teachers’ pay; Julian Castro released a sweeping immigration proposal; and Beto O’Rourke has his $5 trillion plan to combat climate change. But Warren is unquestionably leading the pack. You may not like her ideas, but at least you know what they are.

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