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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took the first major step toward launching a widely anticipated campaign for the presidency, hoping her reputation as a populist fighter can help her navigate a Democratic field that could include nearly two dozen candidates.
“No matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing,” the 69-year- old Massachusetts Democrat said in a video that highlights her family’s history in Oklahoma. “To be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules and take care of the people we love. That’s what I’m fighting for and that’s why today I’m launching an exploratory committee for president.”
Warren burst onto the national scene a decade ago during the financial crisis with calls for greater consumer protections. She quickly became one of the party’s more prominent liberals even as she sometimes fought with Obama administration officials over their response to the market turmoil.
Now, as a likely presidential contender, she is making an appeal to the party’s base. Her video notes the economic challenges facing people of color along with images of a women’s march and Warren’s participation at an LGBT event.
In an email to supporters, Warren said she’d more formally announce a campaign plan early in 2019.
Warren is the most prominent Democrat yet to make a move toward a presidential bid and has long been a favorite target of President Donald Trump.
In mid-December, former Obama housing chief Julian Castro also announced a presidential exploratory committee, which legally allows potential candidates to begin raising money. Outgoing Maryland Rep. John Delaney is the only Democrat so far to have formally announced a presidential campaign.
But that’s likely to change quickly in the new year as other leading Democrats take steps toward White House runs.
Warren enters a Democratic field that’s shaping up as the most crowded in decades, with many of her Senate colleagues openly weighing their own campaigns, as well as governors, mayors and other prominent citizens. One of her most significant competitors could be Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who is eyeing another presidential run harnessing the same populist rhetoric.
She must also move past a widely panned October release of a DNA test meant to bolster her claim to Native American heritage. The move was intended to rebut Trump’s taunts of Warren as “Pocahontas.” Instead, her use of a genetic test to prove ethnicity spurred controversy that seemed to blunt any argument she sought to make. There was no direct mention of it in the video released Monday.
Warren has the benefit of higher name recognition than many others in the Democratic mix for 2020, thanks to her years as a prominent critic of Wall Street who originally conceived of what became the government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
She now faces an arduous battle to raise money and capture Democratic primary voters’ attention before Iowa casts its first vote in more than a year. She has an advantage in the $12.5 million left over from her 2018 re-election campaign that she could use for a presidential run.
Warren’s campaign is likely to revolve around the same theme she’s woven into speeches and policy proposals in recent years: battling special interests, paying mind to the nexus between racial and economic inequities.
“America’s middle class is under attack,” Warren said in the video. “How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. And they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice.”
Poster Comment:
The biggest problems facing America is not gun violence. People like her are and always will be America's biggest problem.
Women in this country who look up to these silly female politicians, vote for them and still think they have their finger on the pulse of America. Well you liberated girls just keep proving one thing equal with men. You can be just as stupid and behave just as bad as the worst of us. Fortunately many women in America see what these phony harpies are and thank God Hillary wasn't elected president.
#1: A K A Stone To: IbJensen (#0)
A K A Stone posted on 2018-12-31 10:42:51 Reply Private Reply
#2: IbJensen To: A K A Stone (#1)
IbJensen posted on 2018-12-31 11:25:51 Reply Private Reply
#3: Hondo68 To: IbJensen, President Warren, *2020 The Likely Suspects* (#0)
She could win with the claim, Better than Donnell. That's a VERY low bar.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-12-31 11:52:16 Reply Private Reply
#4: Pinguinite To: IbJensen (#0)
And why weren't there 2 dozen D candidates in 2016?
The Clinton machine saw to it she had no competition.
Pinguinite posted on 2018-12-31 20:12:39 Reply Private Reply
#5: Hank Rearden To: IbJensen (#0)
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-12-31 20:26:06 Reply Private Reply
#6: GrandIsland To: IbJensen (#0)
GrandIsland posted on 2018-12-31 22:36:08 Reply Private Reply
#7: IbJensen To: GrandIsland (#6)
IbJensen posted on 2018-12-31 22:55:01 Reply Private Reply
#8: IbJensen To: hondo68 (#3)
Don't American communist traitors have a website you'd feel comfortable with?
IbJensen posted on 2018-12-31 23:02:12 Reply Private Reply
#9: IbJensen To: All (#0)
IbJensen posted on 2018-12-31 23:06:58 Reply Private Reply
#10: Deckard To: IbJensen, A K A Stone, hondo68 (#2)
Gee - I thought you Trump "conservatives" believed that ALL abortion is wrong?
Yeah - gotta love the consistency of your beliefs! < / sarcasm >
Frigging hypocrites.
Deckard posted on 2019-01-01 08:57:42 Reply Private Reply
#11: A K A Stone To: Deckard (#10)
We care about little kids.
If you are for murdering little kids. Then you yourself should suffer the fate you so callously let the children suffer.
You kill murderers not give them power.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-01 10:26:34 Reply Private Reply
#12: IbJensen To: Deckard (#10)
Friggin asshole leftist.
IbJensen posted on 2019-01-01 11:10:14 Reply Private Reply
#13: Deckard To: IbJensen (#12)
Oh - I'm an asshole leftist because I believe that ALL abortion is wrong?
Good grief princess, are you frikkin serious?
Deckard posted on 2019-01-01 11:25:39 Reply Private Reply
#14: Deckard To: A K A Stone (#11)
Sure sweetie - that's exactly what you are.
Deckard posted on 2019-01-01 11:26:46 Reply Private Reply
#15: Deckard To: A K A Stone (#11)
Unless they are democrats.
Deckard posted on 2019-01-01 11:38:11 Reply Private Reply
#16: A K A Stone To: Deckard (#13)
Good for you Deckard.
What should be the punishment for
1. Those who perform the murder?
2. For the mother who hires the hitman to kill her kid?
3. For the politician who makes sure the murders continue?
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-01 11:50:37 Reply Private Reply
#17: Hondo68 To: A K A Stone, votes for baby murderers, Deckard (#16)
President Trump should be impeached, tried and executed for his omnibus abortion & Fresh Dead Baby Parts sales, to government research ghouls whom he also funded.
Why did you vote for known baby killers for president, the last TWO presidential elections. They had both endorsed a woman's right to murder babies.
You love the baby murdering Republicans, don't you? How many times did you vote for baby killer Kasich for your governor?
Hondo68 posted on 2019-01-01 12:15:29 Reply Private Reply
#18: A K A Stone To: hondo68 (#17)
I never voted for Kasich because he voted for the Brady Bill in the 90's.
You did vote for faggot baby killer Johnson. Because you like Johnson.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-01 12:33:55 Reply Private Reply
#19: Hondo68 To: A K A Stone (#18)
You lie, I never voted for Johnson. But you did vote for Mitt & Donnell the baby killers.
An accessory to Baby Murder!
Hondo68 posted on 2019-01-01 12:48:57 Reply Private Reply
#20: Deckard To: hondo68, A K A Stone (#19)
Mittens supports gays in the Boy Scouts.
Deckard posted on 2019-01-01 13:06:59 Reply Private Reply
#21: A K A Stone To: Deckard (#20)
Chump.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-01 13:36:28 Reply Private Reply
#22: A K A Stone To: Dekard the pussy (#21)
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-02 11:17:54 Reply Private Reply
#23: A K A Stone To: Deckard (#22)
You must hate kids as much as you hate cops. Because you are for abortion and don't give a shit about them being murdered.
You just care about access to harmful drugs.
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-02 11:29:08 Reply Private Reply
#24: Hondo68 To: A K A Stone, drunk roofing, buckeroo, Deckard (#23)
Alcohol is much more harmful than weed. Look at the deaths and maimings that result from boozing it up.
Some drunken fool could even fall off the roof.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-01-02 12:07:48 Reply Private Reply
#25: Deckard To: A K A Stone (#23)
I've already made my position clear - I believe that ALL abortion is wrong. I'm consistent unlike you who doesn't care if democrats are aborted. Probably libertarians as well.
You must hate kids as much as you hate cops. Because you are for abortion and don't give a shit about them being murdered.
You're delusional.
You just care about access to harmful drugs.
Once again you misrepresent my views.
So typical.
Deckard posted on 2019-01-02 12:40:57 Reply Private Reply
#26: Deckard To: hondo68 (#24)
Don't confuse Stoney with facts - he'll just double down on his insanity.
Deckard posted on 2019-01-02 12:42:24 Reply Private Reply
#27: Hondo68 To: Deckard, GOP, Gay Old Pedophiles, Dugan, Hastert, Mitt, Donnell (#20)
Mitt also brags about being gayer than Ted Kennedy. He will become a US Senator for Utah tomorrow. Another step closer to the GOP's goal of destroying America. They suck, literally.
So millions of real Republicans voted for the Mittster, and then Donnell.
These faggy Republicans love their pervs.
Real Republicans
Hondo68 posted on 2019-01-02 19:07:04 Reply Private Reply
#28: GrandIsland To: hondo68 (#27)
lol
GrandIsland posted on 2019-01-02 19:53:40 Reply Private Reply
#29: A K A Stone To: Deckard (#25)
A K A Stone posted on 2019-01-02 20:19:41 Reply Private Reply
#30: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#3)
How many babies has Trump killed?
Did he also eat them after performing Satanic rituals?
Were any of them Elvis clones?
Enquiring Minds,and all dat,bubba.
sneakypete posted on 2019-01-03 06:41:49 Reply Private Reply
#31: IbJensen To: Deckard (#10)
....and used several rolls of toilet paper. Too bad Dickhead that you weren't around to wipe her ass.
IbJensen posted on 2019-01-09 17:11:23 Reply Private Reply