Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave a new type of answer about possibly running for president: she’s not going to run for president.
Warren, a favorite of the liberal wing of the Democratic party, was asked if she was going to run for president in an interview with Sheila Bair for Fortune magazine.
“So are you going to run for president?” Bair asked.
“No,” Warren responded.
That response is different from one Warren gave in an interview with NPR where she said she’s not running for president but declined to say in the future tense that she wouldn’t run for president. Fans of Warren running for president in 2016 said this showed that she had not completely closed the door to the idea.
Warren did offer some advice for the 2016 Democratic nominee for president.
“They need to speak to America’s families about the economic crisis in this country,” Warren said. “It starts with the recognition that Washington works for the rich and powerful and not for America’s families. From there, it has to go into what changes we need to make, and that gets back to education, infrastructure, and research.”
While that does make me sad, she can continue to do her great work in the Senate. And absolutely nothing says she can’t be the VP nom.
Bigger problem is without Warren, there really isn’t yet a viable alternative to Hillary in the primary. And it is getting kind of late for one to show up.
Jeez, no one in her family’s been President before, no hidden off shore assets, no strange hobbies like toe portraiture or horse dancing and I’ll bet she doesn’t even have one measly corporate board from which she could resign…
and yet with all that being said she is probably one of the most qualified cannidates we could have…someone who actually gives a damm about her job and the american people
I love Warren a lot—but she has zero foreign policy experience, zero security experience, and very little domestic policy experience.
She would be a dreadful nominee.
She’s far more valuable in the Senate, where she is currently taking names and kicking ass.
And her populism is driving the Democrats leftward, which is a good and necessary thing.
That wouldn’t happen if she had to deal with being a nominee.
She won’t be the VP nom if Hillary is the Dem candidate for Pres. She’d pick a pale stale male that could help her in a swing state like Ohio or PA.
Warren would make a great Treas Secty in a Hillary administration though.