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“ ‘I’m not dead. I’m just in the Senate.’ ”
That’s Sen. Elizabeth Warren, appearing on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” just two days after suspending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Warren also joked that she was proud of the coalition she’d built, comprising, she said, of teachers, preschool teachers, middle-school teachers and teachers’ pets. She also boasted of having given a billionaire “a swirly” on live TV, in reference to Michael Bloomberg.
Watch the full opening sketch:
Warren’s appearance got plenty of attention across social media:
Separately, Warren performed with “SNL” cast member Kate McKinnon, who frequently plays Warren in sketches, in a TikTok video that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a vocal backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid, pronounced legendary:
Warren has not revealed whether she will throw her support behind Sanders or Joe Biden, the former vice president, if either. That, too, was fodder for a punch line on “SNL”: Maybe, she said, she’d “pull a New York Times” and endorse both. The Times, of course, endorsed both Warren and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota for the Democratic nomination in January.
Supporters of Sanders, with whom Warren has been viewed as closely aligned in terms of policy priorities, weren’t pleased with the lack of an endorsement:
