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Post by Admin on May 5, 2019 17:44:10 GMT
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren had an up-and-down week in the polls, gaining momentum in a series of national Democratic surveys while landing in fourth in a Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll of likely voters in the 2020 New Hampshire presidential primary. But in an “appearance” on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, Warren doppelganger Kate McKinnon parodied the presidential hopeful with unbridled enthusiasm, touting her plan for a nationwide college debt forgiveness programand joking about her fellow 2020 candidates. Watch: ‘Weekend Update’ with Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Warren ( video includes content some may find offensive)
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2019 17:55:17 GMT
Warren, a Democratic candidate in the 2020 election, penned a review for New York magazine’s The Cut on April 21, heaping praise on British actress Emilia Clarke’s character in HBO’s epic fantasy drama.
Warren, writing after the highly anticipated broadcast of the Season 8 premiere, explained why Targaryen “has been my favorite from the first moment she walked through fire.”
It was because she “might be a princess by birth, but she wasn’t dealt an easy hand,” Warren noted.
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2019 17:35:45 GMT
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday released a statement calling on Congress to pass a slate of legislation aimed at guaranteeing abortion and other reproductive rights around the country, even if Roe v. Wade falls. The statement, posted on Medium, comes as a wave of strict anti-abortion laws are sweeping the country. On Wednesday, Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama signed into law a bill banning nearly all abortions in the state, with no exceptions for rape or incest. On Thursday, the Missouri state Senate passed a bill banning the procedure at eight weeks (the bill now goes back to the state House for approval). Many of these laws are aimed squarely at overturning Roe. “This is a dark moment,” Warren writes. “People are scared and angry. And they are right to be. But this isn’t a moment to back down — it’s time to fight back.”
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2019 17:44:45 GMT
“Race matters,” Senator Elizabeth Warren told me in an interview last Wednesday, “and we need to face it.” Two days earlier, Warren became the latest Democratic presidential hopeful to make the trek to North Philadelphia with Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, to meet with union members. These town halls have a rhythm: Brief remarks from Weingarten, a short monologue from the candidate, and then questions from the most important people in the room: teachers. After Warren’s speech, she was pressed about the growing wall of student debt—and it drew out her higher-education pitch. The Massachusetts senator and former law professor launched into a lecture about how to reform paying for higher education, declaring, “We need to talk about the racial dimension of this head on.” She ran down the stats. “Students of color are more likely to have to borrow money to go to college, they borrow more money when they’re in college, and they have a harder time paying for it when they get out of college,” Warren said. There was a difference, a systemic one, she argued, and the policy makers needed to fix it. Warren’s early 2020 platform has reflected a need to remedy that difference—and higher education is not the only arena where her policy approach addresses America’s legacy of discrimination. From housing to health care, her message in many ways intentionally places an emphasis on race and wealth. In recent years, candidates have placed an emphasis on black outreach as part of their get-out-the-vote efforts, whether that means playing up one’s black bona fides, like Senator Kamala Harris, or sitting down with Al Sharpton at Sylvia’s in Harlem, like Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. But what Warren is doing this spring is unique: She is offering a detailed body of policy to go alongside platitudes.
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Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2019 17:54:20 GMT
Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign is obsessed with stickers.
At a half-dozen events in rural Eastern Iowa over Memorial Day weekend, paid organizers and volunteers swarmed every attendee, affixing brightly colored circles to them as proof their contact information had been secured. The sticker patrol circled the room before Warren spoke — and afterward in the selfie line — just in case anyone happened to slip through.
The campaign’s hyper-vigilance about capturing data on every potential supporter isn’t unique to Iowa, but the sheer number of people dedicated to the task certainly is. Warren has made an early wager on the state unrivaled by other Democratic hopefuls, aiming to strike early in the nomination contest by out-organizing the competition.
She already has more than 50 staffers in Iowa, and more are coming: A “significant” number of hires will be announced on June 15, according to Jason Noble, her Iowa communications director. The national campaign said its Iowa payroll would total at least 60 after the additions.
Plenty of other Democrats are investing heavily and ramping up their presence in Iowa, including Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, and Kamala Harris. But no candidate has hired nearly as many staffers or made the Hawkeye State as central to their hopes for the nomination from the very start.
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