The campaign to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to run for president in 2016 announced on Tuesday that it will suspend the effort next week.
The Run Warren Run campaign, organized by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America, will deliver a petition with more than 365,000 signatures to Warren urging her to run before shutting down the campaign. Warren has repeatedly said that she will not run for president in 2016.
Once their campaign to draft Warren is suspended, the groups will work with Warren on issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement that the senator has staunchly opposed, according to a press release from the campaign.
Though the campaign did not convince Warren to launch a presidential bid, Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of Democracy for America, said in a statement that the campaign still influenced the 2016 election.
“Even without her in the race, Elizabeth Warren and the Run Warren Run campaign she inspired have already transformed the 2016 presidential election by focusing every single Democratic candidate on combatting our country’s income inequality crisis,” he said in a statement announcing the suspension of the campaign.
I’m sorry, but this asshattery should of stopped after umpteenth time Sen Warren said she wouldn’t run. This sound more like grandstanding by Moveon.org and Democracy for America than an actual push for anything substantive.
Yeah, no. Income inequality has been a hot button subject for years and anyone who didn’t think it would take a prominent place in the 2016 elections is being deliberately disingenuous.
Good. I’ve been saying all along that we need Warren in the Senate. Folks seem to not know the role she is playing there. I know many folks don’t want Sec. Hillary Clinton. Well I hope they keep their eyes on the prize if she gets the nomination. This is not only about the White House, but also the Supreme Court, House and Senate. If the current Supreme Court makeup doesn’t do it for you, think of one without even a swing vote. I will proudly vote for whoever is the Dem nominee, because to not do so means I want the RWNJs to continue to destroy us. Women and enlightened men know which side supports them and their issues.
This gang is the epitome of the Slow Learner. She has said ‘No’ a hundred ways to Suanday for the last year.
I plan on voting for Sanders in the Primary, and for whoever wins the nomination in the National. I am hoping Bernie gets enough votes to pull Ms. Clinton to the left, the country desperately needs to go left.
Agreed. I’ll support Hillary when I have no choice. Hopefully she reads the tea leaves and sees that we liberals want to go left…wayyyy left!