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Warren Mania: Libs Trying To Draft Warren On Presidential Run (Picture, Video)
Hundreds of Ex-Obama Staffers Call on Warren to Run
By Andrew Prokop, Vox
14 December 14
n Friday morning, the group “Ready for Warren” released a letter calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president — with the signatures of over 330 former Obama campaign staffers.
“We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance,” the letter begins. “We organized like no campaign had organized before — and won the Democratic primary. We built a movement.”
The letter calls “rising income inequality” the “challenge of our times”, and concludes: “We want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy … We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.”
Warren’s increased prominence
Warren has said repeatedly that she has no intention of running. But the new effort to coax her into the race comes as she’s taken an increasingly prominent role in key political battles.
She has harshly criticized this week’s government funding bill because it repeals part of Dodd-Frank, and is going to war with Obama over his nomination of investment banker Antonio Weiss for a position in the Treasury Department. She was also given a role in the Senate Democratic leadership in November.
The groups urging her to run MOREHERE
