Elizabeth Warren to announce Senate run
Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor and Wall Street critic who helped create the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will officially announce her run for Massachusetts Senator on Wednesday morning, her campaign advisors have confirmed to multiple media outlets.
Warren hopes to win the Democratic Party nomination and then reclaim the seat currently held by Republican Scott Brown, who won a special election in January 2010 to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Brown will seek his first full, six-year term next year, the Boston Globe reports.
Other Democrats running in the primary include philanthropist and City Year founder Alan Khazei, Newton Mayor Setti Warren, state Rep. Thomas Conroy and Robert Massie, a one-time candidate for lieutenant governor, Boston’s WCVB TV reports.
According to National Journal’s Hotline On Call:
Progressives have openly encouraged Warren to run against Brown, the implication being that none of the current contenders in the field have a chance to beat Brown. Recent surveys have shown Brown leading Warren by wide margins, but Democrats believe that with President Obama atop the ballot, Warren will have the wind at her back.
Republicans, meanwhile, will portray Warren as an out-of-touch Cambridge elite bent on bringing her liberal viewpoint to South Boston and the more conservative western part of the state. Brown has a huge fundraising lead, too; he ended the second quarter with more than $9.6 million on the in the bank.
Warren plans to launch her candidacy by greeting voters across the state, starting with a stop at a Boston MBTA station, the Boston Globe reports.
Her campaign also plans to release a video on her campaign website tomorrow that outlines her major concerns. “The pressures on middle class families are worse than ever, but it is the big corporations that get their way in Washington,” Warren says in the video, according to a partial script given to the Boston Globe. “I want to change that. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.”
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