It’s a good thing that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is opening a presidential headquarters in Charlestown.

At the rate she is lagging in the race among the posse of panderers running for the Democrat nomination for president, she will need all the support she can get, beginning in her home state.

So, maybe she should consider also opening headquarters in Worcester, Springfield, Lowell and New Bedford. If she can’t dominate the field in Massachusetts, where can the former “American Indian” win?

She has not only fallen behind in the polls; she is behind the leaders in raising campaign money as well. Rather than campaigning in Mississippi, Warren would be better advised to pay attention to Massachusetts. She was not elected to run for president, but to serve in the Senate.

The recently released Massachusetts statewide Emerson College poll conducted in April showed Warren, the state’s senior senator, running third, behind both Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, who has yet to officially announce.

Finishing right behind Warren, in a surprising showing, was Pete Buttigieg, the young, articulate and openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind.

The poll gave Sanders 26 percent of the vote, compared to 23 percent for Biden, 14 percent for Warren and 11 percent for Buttigieg. Trailing were Beto O’Rourke of Texas with 8 percent and California Sen. Kamala Harris with 7 percent.

In addition to her poor showing in Massachusetts, Warren also comes in fourth or fifth in the polls in neighboring New Hampshire, the first primary state, and in Iowa, the first caucus state. While Warren’s lackluster showing may surprise some, Massachusetts voters were opposed to her running in the first place and made their feelings known in polls before Warren announced her candidacy.

That was back when she was caught up in a bizarre television DNA event to prove her claimed American Indian ancestry, which backfired when it turned out to be minuscule.

That episode cost her campaign time, money and energy that, gone forever, could have been put to better use on the campaign trail.

To avoid being doomed as an also ran, Warren is attempting to “out left,” or out pander, Bernie Sanders and the rest of the free stuff neo-socialists running for the Democratic Party nomination.

This means taking on Bernie Sanders, the old free-stuff Bolshevik, who has been living off the taxpayers all his adult life. He has been so good at it that he has become a millionaire, and the owner of three homes. And he has never been off a government payroll.

Sanders set the tone for this primary campaign four years ago when he challenged Hillary Clinton for the nomination. He lost, but his left-wing proposals ranging from free college tuition, wealth transfer, socialized medicine and, now, reparations for slavery, are all mainstream among the progressives.

Speaking of reparations perhaps Warren’s proposed new $1 trillion (with a T) tax on corporations would help pay for them, if it is not used to pay for free college tuition, billions in outstanding student loans and a guaranteed income for everybody.

“I believe it’s time to start the national, full-blown conversation about reparations,” Warren said the other day campaigning in Mississippi.

Reparations is a concept that will not be turned into a reality. There is simply no way to adequately define who, in this integrated society, would be eligible for what, or why the millions of modern Americans, who never had anything to do with slavery, should be obligated to pay for that ancient evil.

If there to be reparations, perhaps the millions of the descendants of the Union soldiers who fought to free the slaves should also be eligible.

The Union Army was made up of 2.5 million men, 178,000 of whom were black. It suffered 360,000 deaths through combat, disease, starvation or accident. There was no compensation, no family support, no Veterans Administration. Also, thousands of the living returned home to their jobs in farms and factories unable to function because they had lost an arm or a leg. Fifty thousand Union soldiers lost at least one limb. Most ended up in poverty, as did their families and descendants. There were no reparations for anyone.

Reparations are only one of many controversial issues facing the Democrats. What is not controversial is that Warren will not be the Democrat nominee for president.

Her best course is to drop out of the race, drop back into Massachusetts and support someone who can win.