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    Warren's once high-flying campaign has lost altitude. She has a plan for rising again

    by Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Dec 13, 2019 5 minutes

    MANCHESTER, N.H. - Last winter, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wowed Tom Courtney by cold-calling the former Iowa state senator and talking for a half-hour. After a campaign event in his hometown of Burlington, she sweet-talked his 8-year-old great-granddaughter. Warren impressed him as she built an imposing political organization across Iowa.

    Now he's not so sure about her. The Massachusetts senator has suffered from weeks of attacks by rivals, and Courtney is coming back to an issue Warren has struggled to put to rest: electability.

    "I don't know if she can beat Trump," said Courtney, who is the Des Moines County Democratic co-chair and has not endorsed any candidate.

    Having seen her high-flying political balloon lose air in recent months, Warren is now trying to regain altitude with voters like Courtney, by stepping up her criticism of Democratic

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