Elizabeth Warren backs AOC’s Green New Deal, calls for an ‘ultra millionaires tax’, brands Trump bigoted and says climate change threatens ‘our existence’ as she launches 2020 presidential run
Elizabeth Warren officially announced her candidacy at rally on Saturday
Held the event in struggling mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts
Was a far cry from the posh environs of her home in Cambridge
Cheered AOC’s ‘Green New Deal’ proposal and proposed ‘ultra millionaires tax’
Touted immigrant women for 1912 strike at the mill where she spoke
Warren faced fresh controversy this week over prior claims of Native heritage
Wrote her race as ‘American Indian’ on bar registration card in 1986
Taught law in Texas at the time but soon moved on to UPenn and Harvard
Warren’s prior publication of DNA test revealed her as little as 1/1,024 Native
She did not mention the embarrassment during speech in bid to move on
By KEITH GRIFFITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
9 February 2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren has officially announced her 2020 presidential campaign.
The 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat officially launched her campaign at a rally on Saturday in Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of New England’s poorest and most heavily Latino communities.
‘I am a candidate for president of the United States of America,’ she told the cheering crowd on a blustery day where the wind chill hit 19 degrees.
Warren struck a populist note in her speech, highlighting her humble origins as the daughter of a janitor, and lashed out at a ‘rigged’ system that favors big banks and the elite.
She proposed an ‘ultra millionaires tax’ on the super wealthy and twice praised the Green New Deal, an ambitious environmental, economic and social master-plan rolled out this week by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.
Warren also lashed out at President Donald Trump, saying: ‘The rich and the powerful use fear to divide us. We’re done with that. Bigotry has no place in the Oval Office.’
The former law school professor began her speech with a lecture on the history of the rally’s location, Everett Mill, where the Industrial Workers of the World in 1912 organized a strike of female workers whose pay was cut corresponding to a new law shortening the work week of women.
Warren praised the mostly immigrant women for winning a pay raise and inspiring new worker-protection legislation.
‘They stuck together and they won,’ Warren said. She said that the history lesson was a ‘story about our power when we fight together’ and vowed that the upcoming election would be ‘the fight of our lives.’
She hopes her populist stance will distinguish her in the field and help her move past the controversy surrounding her past claims to Native American heritage, an embarrassment Warren did not mention in her speech.
Warren concluded her speech to the walk-off song Respect, by Aretha Franklin.
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