Senator Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday morning that she isn’t planning to challenge President Donald Trump for the White House in 2020.
‘No,’ Warren said flatly on NBC’s ‘Today’ show.
‘I am running,’ she added – ‘in 2018, for senator from Massachusetts.’ Warren faces a re-election fight next year.
Senator Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday morning that she isn’t planning to challenge President Donald Trump for the White House in 2020
‘No,’ Warren said flatly on NBC’s ‘Today’ show, but later grinned and stayed silent when asked if ‘She persisted’ would be a 2020 campaign bumper-sticker message for her
Co-host Matt Lauer pressed her, saying ‘a lot of people are already printing up those bumper stickers for 2020 that say “she was warned, she was given an explanation, nevertheless she persisted”.’
Warren grinned and stayed silent.
Trump said last month during a Fox News Channel interview that running in 2020 against Warren would be ‘a dream come true.’
‘I think she would lose so badly,’ the president said then.
Now the Massachusetts liberal is promoting her 11th book, ‘This Fight Is Our Fight,’ but says it isn’t meant to be a launch vehicle for any presidential ambitions.
Lauer’s reference to Warren’s accidental tag-line – ‘nevertheless, she persisted,’ is a hat-tip to a February 7 episode that saw Warren silenced on the Senate floor.
Warren clashed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Feb. 7 after violating a Senate rule against impugning another senator – in this case, Jeff Sessions
As a protest against the nomination of then-Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general, she read aloud a passage from a 1986 letter written by Coretta Scott King to complain about Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship.
The King letter said that as an Alabama federal prosecutor, Sessions had used ‘the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squelched her, ruling that she had violated a rule against denigrating fellow senators.
‘Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted,’ McConnell said then.
Two days later in a closed-door meeting with senators from both major parties, Trump blasted Warren as ‘Pocohontas’ – his favorite epithet for her.
Warren infamously inflated her Native American bona fides early in her career to gain favorable treatment in applying for university professorships.
‘Pocahontas is now the face of your party,’ Trump told Democratic senators in the room on February 9, CNN reported.
He then claimed that the only reason she said she had Native American origins was due to her ‘high cheekbones.’
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