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.
Elizabeth Warren is where she needs to be…
Why burden her with a campaign and a risk of being elected?
I would support her…she has a record of not just having principles, but also standing up for them and not caving. After the debacle last night - “lead Dems” sold out the working people who once made small campaign donations - that is no longer worth the effort. The political world will be ONLY focused on the Oligarchs and their whims with any of the other candidates I have read about.
I’m torn but generally agree. One of the problems is the huge number of people who firmly believe in the Green Lantern theory of Presidential power. They believe the perfect candidate will solve all our problems but, such high expectations, it’s a long way to fall.
Cue the “she can’t win” buzzkillers…
I’m getting a bit worried by this Warren “bandwagon.” I believe her when she says she’s not interested in running and, anyhow, I believe she can be most successful as the liberal conscience in the coming Democratic minority in the Senate.
My worry is that people supporting her now will lose interest in the campaign if she’s not the candidate, and thereby cede the 2016 election to whatever execrable candidate the Republicans pick. That would be a disaster.