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Warren Winning Over Biden Through Staff Hires

March 10, 2021 · 3:00 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Joe Biden has shown little appetite for Elizabeth Warren’s trademark campaign proposal, a wealth tax, but she’s won something else from the president, as nearly a dozen of her allies and former aides have joined his administration,” Bloomberg reports.

“The Massachusetts senator’s associates hold top posts at the White House and at federal agencies handling issues ranging from financial regulation to national security and climate change. The hires have helped assuage progressives concerned Biden isn’t sympathetic to their views, but have set off alarms in the banking and financial sector.”

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Warren Angling to Be Biden’s Veep

April 17, 2020 · 9:45 am ET · Leave a Comment

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC this week that she would accept an offer from Joe Biden to be his running mate.

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Warren Gets Help from a Super PAC

February 19, 2020 · 10:35 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Elizabeth Warren has spent her presidential campaign denouncing big-money outside groups. Now, as she struggles in early primary contests, she’s getting help from one,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Persist PAC is airing about $1 million in Nevada ads leading up to the state’s caucuses on Saturday. The super PAC was created just this Tuesday, according to paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission. The ad echoes Ms. Warren’s campaign message that she fights for working people.”

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Warren Calls for a ‘Blue New Deal’

December 10, 2019 · 9:03 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Elizabeth Warren is out with new plans to speed up offshore wind projects, expand marine sanctuaries, and bolster use of oceans to soak up carbon emissions,” Axios reports.

“Those are three pillars of the far wider ‘Blue New Deal’ — a riff on the ‘Green New Deal’ concept — on ocean policy that the Democratic White House hopeful unveiled Tuesday.”

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Health Care Stalls Warren’s Campaign

December 2, 2019 · 9:01 am ET · Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “The irony is that a candidate whose political identity has been built in part on her reputation as a policy wonk — a potential president who boasts of having a plan for nearly every challenge facing everyday Americans — has been tripped up by a policy issue that has dominated politics and defined her party for years.”

“In some ways, the health-care debate was uniquely suited to entangle Warren, who as a senator had never made the issue a central element of her worldview.”

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How Warren Quietly Courts Big Donors

November 18, 2019 · 11:27 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Elizabeth Warren prohibits special access for big donors — but her campaign treasurer and another close ally are organizing wealthy supporters for Warren behind the scenes while she rips on the rich,” Politico reports.

“The pair, Boston businessman Paul Egerman and activist Shanti Fry, have maintained campaign titles as Warren’s finance co-chairs, even as her campaign sheared other links to the Democratic donor class earlier this year by forswearing closed-door, in-person fundraising events of the sort Warren did for years in the Senate.”

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Warren Buys Ad Time on CNBC to Blast Billionaires

November 13, 2019 · 5:04 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is launching a new attack on the billionaires who have criticized her proposed taxes and policies with a new ad set to air on CNBC this week, CNBC reports.

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Pressley Breaks with ‘The Squad’ to Back Warren

November 6, 2019 · 12:48 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), a rising progressive star and the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress, announced she is endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president, the Boston Globe reports.

“In supporting Warren, she is breaking with three other progressive freshmen lawmakers who make up ‘The Squad; — Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Those women recently endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, giving his campaign a major boost.”

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Biden Slams Warren as ‘Elitist’

November 6, 2019 · 12:32 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Joe Biden lobbed fresh accusations at Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday, digging in on attacks that she’s an ‘elitist’ and escalating tensions between the two Democratic primary frontrunners,” Politico reports.

“Biden built on an inflammatory Medium post he published Tuesday, in which he wrote, ‘Some call it the ‘my way or the highway’ approach to politics. But it’s worse than that. It’s condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view.'”

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Warren Proposes $20 Trillion In New Taxes for Health Plan

November 1, 2019 · 9:06 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed a $20.5 trillion package of tax increases to pay for the Medicare-for-all plan she backs, a move that attempts to answer critics who question how she would pay for the proposal but could open her to fresh lines of attack,” the Washington Post reports.

“The plan is designed to hit corporations and the wealthy, including a provision requiring companies to send most of the funds they currently spend on employee health contributions to the federal government. It also would expand her signature wealth tax proposal and would make cuts to military spending.”

“Warren’s new health-care financing blueprint comes at a pivotal moment in the Democratic presidential primary, as the Massachusetts senator’s steady rise in the polls has prompted sustained attacks by competitors about how she would pay for her plans. As someone known to come up with politically savvy ways to sell dense policy ideas, communicating the gist of this 20-page proposal will be a major test of her candidacy.”

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The GOP Deploys an Old Tactic for Warren

October 10, 2019 · 2:23 pm ET · Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Republicans have tried to brand her as a socialist, attack her policy ideas and portray her as too left-wing for the American electorate. None of those arguments have diminished her political momentum, robust fund-raising or polling.”

“But in the past week, conservative news sites have challenged Ms. Warren’s story about how a public school principal forced her out of a teaching job in 1971 because she was ‘visibly pregnant,’ and the Republican National Committee grabbed onto the issue to wage its own attack. In doing so, Republicans employed a tactic — questioning a female candidate’s authenticity — that is at once often a sexist trope in politics and a strategy used against Hillary Clinton in 2016.”

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Warren Smear Shows How Facts Can Be Distorted

October 9, 2019 · 6:10 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Margaret Sullivan looks at the story that challenged Elizabeth Warren’s claim that she was fired as a teacher for being pregnant and concludes, “A news report can be narrowly factual, and still plenty unfair.”

“There is no big controversy here. No apparent lie and no ‘character issue’ that should unduly concern the voting public. If there is a scandal here, it’s how — in the bad-faith media world — narrowly presented facts without sufficient context can do unfair harm.”

“They can and will be weaponized, falsely regurgitated and twisted beyond recognition.”

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Warren Will Forgo Big Money Events if Nominated

October 9, 2019 · 11:16 am ET · Leave a Comment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has risen in the Democratic presidential primary on her pledge to forgo traditional big-money fund-raisers, said that if she became the nominee she would continue to skip such events, a reversal of what her position has been throughout 2019,” the New York Times reports.

Said Warren: “No, I will not be forced to make changes in how I raise money. Look, for me this is pretty straightforward. Either you think democracy works and electing a president is all about going behind closed doors with bazillionaires and corporate executives and lobbyists and scooping up as much money as possible. Or you think it’s about a grass-roots, let’s build this from the ground up.”

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Records Contradict Warren’s Claim She Was Fired

October 7, 2019 · 4:52 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“The Riverdale Board of Education approved a second-year teaching contract for a young Elizabeth Warren, documents show, contradicting the Democratic presidential candidate’s repeated claims that she was asked not to return to teaching after a single year because she was ‘visibly pregnant,'” the Washington Free Beacon reports.

“Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a ‘2nd year’ contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was ‘accepted with regret.'”

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Warren Fires Senior Staffer for ‘Inappropriate Behavior’

October 4, 2019 · 4:30 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has fired its national organizing director, Rich McDaniel, after an investigation into allegations of what it called ‘inappropriate behavior,'” Politico reports.

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Wall Street Democratic Donors Warn Party

September 26, 2019 · 2:25 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Several Democratic donors on Wall Street and in big business tell CNBC they “are preparing to sit out the presidential campaign fundraising cycle — or even back President Trump — if Sen. Elizabeth Warren wins the party’s nomination.”

“During the campaign, Warren has put out multiple plans intended to curb the influence of Wall Street, including a wealth tax. In July, she released a proposal that would make private equity firms responsible for debts and pension obligations of companies they buy.”

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Warren Announces $10 Million Ad Campaign

September 24, 2019 · 11:20 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign on Tuesday announced an early-state ad campaign of at least $10 million, suggesting that the Massachusetts senator is continuing to raise big money from grass-roots donors after an anemic start,” Politico reports.

“The campaign also released three ads Tuesday — 15-second, 30-second, and 1-minute spots — which highlight Warren’s policy plans and her intention to crack down on corruption in government.”

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Why Warren Should Be Considered the Frontrunner

September 23, 2019 · 10:23 am ET · Leave a Comment

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Although they’re essentially tied in the latest Des Moines Register/CNN Iowa Poll, it’s still better to be Elizabeth Warren at this point in the Democratic presidential race than Joe Biden.

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