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Warren Lobbies House Democrats Against Obama

March 30, 2015 at 7:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is meeting with House Democrats in an effort to push back against President Obama’s trade agenda, The Hill reports.

“The liberal senator met Tuesday with a group of House Democrats before administration officials were to meet with a larger of group of Democrats to discuss the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) process, one of the most controversial issues in two trade deals that the Obama administration is negotiating.”

Politico: Top liberals call for Warren candidacy

Warren Urged to Run for President

March 23, 2015 at 2:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments

The Boston Globe editorial page urged Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to run for president.

“Democrats would be making a big mistake if they let Hillary Clinton coast to the presidential nomination without opposition, and, as a national leader, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren can make sure that doesn’t happen. If she puts her causes and goals front and center, as Democrats gather their forces for the crucial 2016 campaign, Warren could enrich the political process for years to come.”

Bonus Quote of the Day

March 5, 2015 at 2:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments

“Outsiders can say whatever they want, but insiders don’t criticize other insiders.”

— Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, quoted by Politico, offering advice to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Buffett Says Warren Should Be ‘Less Angry’

March 2, 2015 at 4:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments

Billionaire Warren Buffett isn’t a fan of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) populist rhetoric, Business Insider reports.

Said Buffett: “I think that she would do better if she was less angry and demonizing. I believe in ‘hate the sin but love the sinner.’ And I’m not sure that I’ve fully convinced Elizabeth Warren that that’s the way to go.”

Warren Seeks to Block Trade Deals

February 28, 2015 at 6:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “is gearing up for another big fight with the Obama administration, this time over trade,” Politico reports.

“The Massachusetts senator is stepping up her criticism of the administration’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a centerpiece of the president’s second-term agenda, saying it could allow multinational corporations to gut U.S. regulations and win big settlements funded by U.S. taxpayers but decided by an international tribunal.”

Hillary Clinton Privately Courts Elizabeth Warren

February 17, 2015 at 12:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments

Hillary Clinton held a private, one-on-one meeting with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in December at Mrs. Clinton’s Washington home, “a move by the Democrats’ leading contender in 2016 to cultivate the increasingly influential senator and leader of the party’s economic populist movement,” the New York Times reports.

“The get-together represented a step toward relationship-building for two women who do not know each other well. And for Mrs. Clinton, it was a signal that she would prefer Ms. Warren’s counsel delivered in person, as a friendly insider, rather than on national television or in opinion articles. And for Ms. Warren, the meeting offered the opportunity to make clear what she believes are the most pressing national issues.”

Axelrod Says Warren Couldn’t Beat Clinton

February 11, 2015 at 6:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

Obama adviser David Axelrod told Hugh Hewitt that he doesn’t think Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) poses a credible threat to Hillary Clinton’s likely presidential bid in 2016.

Said Axelrod: “I know Elizabeth Warren well, and my strong feeling is she’s not going to run. I think she’s trying to influence the direction of the party, and you have more influence as a potential candidate than you do if you take yourself out. So she’s allowing, she’s sticking to this language of ‘I’m not running for president,’ and titillating people with it, because it gives her more leverage.”

He added: “Hillary is probably as well-positioned within her own party as any open seat candidate has been in our lifetime.”

Republicans Urge Elizabeth Warren to Run

January 28, 2015 at 3:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments

Conservatives are talking up a possible Democratic presidential primary between Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, the New York Times reports.

“The tactic says much about the 2016 landscape for Republicans. A crowded field of people who say they are considering running for president — including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts — has emerged. That means the party is expecting a bruising ideological battle for the nomination.”

“An easy path to the nomination would allow Mrs. Clinton to potentially enter a general election with more funding than the Republican nominee, who would have had to spend heavily to beat a wide field of competitors.”

Hatch Sees Warren as the New Kennedy

January 22, 2015 at 8:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told Yahoo News that he thinks Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), “who showed up at a well-attended reception to celebrate Hatch’s chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee and said a few words in his honor, would like to form a friendship with him ‘like Kennedy had.'”

Said Hatch: “We’ve become friends. I think she would like to have a relationship with me like Kennedy had. I like her. I think she’s a very bright woman. She’s certainly playing the media in a beautiful way.”

Hatch added that he’d like to see Warren become “the new Kennedy.”

Warren Explains Her Influence

January 17, 2015 at 4:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “has an explanation for the singular nature of her power,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Warren: “I’ll always be an outsider. That’s how I understand the world. There’s a real benefit to being clear about this. I know why I’m here. I think about this every morning before I open my eyes, and I’m still thinking about it every night when I go to sleep.”

Warren Says ‘No’ to White House Bid in Future Tense

January 13, 2015 at 12:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “has now rejected a 2016 presidential campaign in both the present and future tenses,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The Massachusetts Democrat has for months gently patted away questions about her presidential ambitions with a present-tense ‘I am not running for president.’ But in an interview published Tuesday in Fortune magazine, Ms. Warren gave a categorical response to the future-tense question: “Are you going to run for president?”

“No,” Ms. Warren responded.

Why Elizabeth Warren Won’t Run

January 11, 2015 at 8:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments

Jill Lawrence: “Being president, or even just running for president, would dilute what the left loves best about Warren and also, perhaps, what the nation needs most from her. Being speculated about as a candidate for president, on the other hand, sometimes can be useful. Back in 1991, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia told me he did not discourage speculation about a run for president because he was thrilled by the attention it generated for his ideas on health policy. So it is with Warren. She remains vastly influential as long as she retains her unique role in the national conversation. But if she actually were to run, all that would change. And her record so far suggests she knows it.”

Warren Attacks Republicans and Democrats

January 7, 2015 at 2:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 70 Comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered a stinging critique of Republicans and Democrats alike in a speech “that said policies pushed by both parties have created financial hardships for everyday families while further enriching a narrow sliver of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Warren: “Pretty much the whole Republican Party—and, if we’re going to be honest, too many Democrats—talked about the evils of ’big government’ and called for deregulation. It sounded good, but it was really about tying the hands of regulators and turning loose big banks and giant international corporations to do whatever they wanted to do—turning them loose to rig the markets and reduce competition, to outsource more jobs, to load up on more risks and hide behind taxpayer guarantees, to sell more mortgages and credit cards that cheated people. In short, to do whatever juiced short-term profits even if it came at the expense of working families.”

The Difference Between Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren

December 15, 2014 at 11:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments

First Read “On Friday, we compared Elizabeth Warren to Ted Cruz — after Warren had rallied many House Republicans (though ultimately not enough) to oppose the $1.1 trillion spending bill. But there is one BIG difference between the two: Warren’s activism hasn’t put her party at a disadvantage the way Cruz’s has. After Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) tried to re-litigate President Obama’s executive action on immigration, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took advantage of their protest, using the rare Saturday session to advance Obama’s nominees in the confirmation process.”

Warren Is Not (Currently) Running for President

December 15, 2014 at 8:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments

In an interview with NPR, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) repeatedly used the present tense to say, “I am not running for president.”

When asked why she refused to put a “never” on her response, she answered: “I am not running for president. You want me to put an exclamation point at the end?”

Why Clinton Might Not Want to Wait

December 15, 2014 at 5:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments

Hillary Clinton, “after much debate within her inner circle, appears to have put off formally entering the 2016 presidential race until spring 2015,” the Washington Post reports.

“Although there are plenty of reasons that favor waiting — legal ones in terms of how she incorporates (or doesn’t) the various outside groups that have blossomed in support of her in the past few years, and political ones about looking less, well, political, for as long as possible — there’s also a big reason she should at least consider announcing sooner rather than later. And that reason is Elizabeth Warren.”

What Does Elizabeth Warren Want?

December 15, 2014 at 5:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

The Hill: “Groups on the left are trying to draft the Massachusetts liberal into the presidential race, viewing her as the perfect populist counterweight to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Warren has steadfastly refused those overtures, and allies take her at her word that she isn’t planning to run.”

“Meanwhile, her influence in the Senate is on the rise, partly due to a new position in Democratic leadership that makes her a liaison to groups on the left who have grown frustrated with the party’s direction. Warren has signaled she won’t be a shrinking violet in the post, last week defying Senate leaders and the White House to lead a revolt against government funding legislation that included a provision that rolled back part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.”

Warren Gains Clout in Battle Against Wall Street

December 13, 2014 at 9:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

“Before she became a senator, Elizabeth Warren came to Capitol Hill and promised ‘plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor’ if she did not get meaningful reforms of Wall Street. This week, she showed what she meant,” the Boston Globe reports.

“The Massachusetts Democrat brought Congress to the brink of yet another government shutdown in her effort to kill a provision that she said would have once again put taxpayers at risk of bailing out big banks. The provision was inserted by Republicans in a huge spending bill. She appears to have lost the policy fight, but won a political battle.”