More than 300 ex-Obama campaign staffers are issuing an open letter on Friday, urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to run for president in 2016, the New York Times’s Nick Confessore reported.
“We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance,” the letter reads. “Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and 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.”
Per Confessore, signatories include Rajeev Chopra, who worked as the chief information officer for both of Obama’s presidential campaigns, and Catherine Bracy, who ran the 2012 campaign’s San Francisco tech office.
The letter follows a significant amplification of the Draft Warren movement this week. MoveOn.org and Democracy for America both announced that they would join the effort.
Confessore noted that the letter did not mention presumed Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by name. Some other top Obama aides, including 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina, have aligned themselves with a Clinton candidacy.
