| No Images? Click here   By Elise Foley2020 presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is known for having policy proposals on just about everything. Her focus on policy -- and the way she put it together -- is actually pretty unique in politics. HuffPost reporters Paul Blumenthal and Kevin Robillard wrote about how Warren shaped her policy team and why it matters. We talked to Paul about the piece.How did you come up with the idea for this piece?Elizabeth Warren was the first candidate in the Democratic presidential primary to fall in the polls and then recover. She did so by steadily releasing policy proposal after policy proposal until it became a meme about her professional competence. Which is kind of an odd thing to do in politics. Both of us had the idea to write about the origin of her policy shop and how it vaulted her back into the race. (We each had separate headlines we wanted to use that other publications used before we finished ours.) So we worked together to put this together.What makes Warren's approach to policy different from some of the other campaigns?There are few points we tried to get across in the piece. One is that she relies far less on the traditional D.C. think tank world than many other candidates (and members of Congress) do to help craft policy. What’s interesting here is that she came to Washington wanting to work on issues that were important to her and found that there just weren’t experts here on some of these issues because that’s not where the donor money was going. So she turned her Senate office into an extensive policy-making shop that other senators came to rely on. The lack of particular subject matter experts in Washington led her to create a network of legal academics (like herself) from outside the capital and connect them to politics in a new way.What do you hope readers take from it?We hope the piece provides a window into how Warren approaches not only policy, but politics. A number of the people we quoted in the piece help explain this. And it’s important. She could be the next president, after all.🔥 More Must Reads 🔥
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