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As we enter the second quarter of 2015 10 months before the Iowa Caucuses and 120 days since the start of the
Run Warren Run
campaign the underlying conditions for an Elizabeth Warren presidential candidacy are more
favorable than ever.
Senator Warren finds herself with a huge outpouring of grassroots energy and enthusiasm for her to run, a message
about fixing a "rigged" system that's defining the agenda for the entire potential field, the largest on-the-ground
operation in early states of any potential candidate, a polling floor in second place in both Iowa (
16%
) and New
Hampshire (
22%
), and a growing level of political and intellectual support for a candidacy.
"The Draft Warren movement is developing the scope and character of a classic draft effort.
And a classic draft effort with grassroots energy and validation from former cabinet members
and major media is hard to ignore." -
The Nation's John Nichols
Huge Outpouring of Grassroots Energy and Enthusiasm for the Draft Warren Movement
While supporters continue to rally at Senator Warren's events across the country calling on her to run, the draft
campaign has generated hundreds of
voicemails
, videos, and letters to the editor from Americans nationwide.
12 full-time staff on the ground organizing across Iowa and New Hampshire;
Dozens of volunteers statewide, with identified supporters in all 99 counties in Iowa;
More than 100 on-the-ground events organized across both states;
The organizing of 27 current or former elected officials in New Hampshire and 19 Iowa leaders in a united
call for Elizabeth Warren to run for president;
Kick-off events in both states, which featured prominent elected officials including Iowa Senate President
Pam Jochum and New Hampshire State Representative Renny Cushing (
IA
,
NH
).
Aided by local student leaders, Run Warren Run organizers have held house parties, visibility events, teach-ins and
rallies calling on Elizabeth Warren to run for president and highlighting her vision for America from reducing student
debt and expanding Social Security to stopping job-killing trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
A Polling Floor in Second Place and Growing Even Before Warren Becomes an Active Candidate
Senator Warren is the only potential challenger to Secretary Hillary Clinton who is broadly seen as having a credible
chance of winning the nomination and general election
.
Building Power for Warren's Message and Defining the Agenda of the Entire Potential Candidate
Field
As reported by the
Los Angeles Times
, income inequality, Senator Warren's signature issue fight, has emerged as the
central theme of the 2016 election.
There's a growing consensus that the nascent presidential campaign already has
a leading issue: the economy's failure to produce rising incomes for the middle class. Amplified by the megaphone of
the Run Warren Run campaign's nationwide movement, Elizabeth Warren's leadership in the Senate is advancing the
key issues that will decide the 2016 election.
Immediately following the launch of the Run Warren Run campaign last December, Warren led congressional
Democrats in a battle against a budget deal that eviscerated key elements of the Dodd-Frank financial
reform legislation designed to prevent the kind of risky derivative trades that wrecked the world financial
system in 2008. While Republicans succeeded in passing their budget deal by a slim margin, Warren's
leadership flipped dozens of Democrats in both the House and Senate to vote against provisions they had
supported only months before by exposing the bad deal and harnessing the substantial national media and
grassroots attention created by the launch of the draft campaign.
In January, Warren harnessed the draft movement's energy and media again, successfully marshalling
grassroots forces and preventing the confirmation of Antonio Weiss, a Wall Street executive, to a key
Treasury Department position.
In March, Warren continued to harness grassroots and media interest in her potential candidacy in
opposition to fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, making the fight for fair trade a critical,
early issue in the 2016 presidential contest. While the Run Warren Run campaign, working in partnership
with allies, signed up more than 4,800 Americans to personally drop by their representatives offices to
oppose fast-track and the TPP, numerous journalists have reported on how Senator Warrens entry into this
fight
has changed its underlying dynamics
and are asking where other potential presidential candidates
stand. Under this media spotlight, potential candidate and former Maryland Gov.
Martin O'Malley recently
announced
that he now also opposes the TPP.
The threat of Senator Warrens possible candidacy and the movement built by Run Warren Run campaign
has even dominated the debate among Republican candidates as each struggles to harness the populist
anger in the Republican Party.
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul
all agreed,
at a California presidential
forum in January
, that the i
ncreasing gap between rich and poor is problematic a far cry from Mitt
Romney's 2012 campaign against the 47%. CNN reported from the 2015 Conservative Political Action
Conference that
Republicans agree with Senator Warren
: They want to break up the big banks. They dont
trust Wall Street and bemoan its outsized role in politics. They are worried about the growing gap between
the poor and the rich. And they think its just a matter of time before the country is hit with another financial
crisis.
Carly Fiorina
, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who is actively eyeing a White House run, recently
proclaimed: Elizabeth Warren is right: crony capitalism is alive and well.
The Los Angeles Times
reports:
Jeb
Bushs
Right to Rise political action committee, for example, declares in its mission statement that millions
of Americans feel the playing field is no longer fair or level, a metaphor also employed by the liberals hero
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
In short, this is Senator Warren's moment, proven by the success of her leadership and the fact that every potential
candidate Democrat or Republican is scrambling to follow her lead.