Two Draft-Warren Groups Call It a Day
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, listens during a Senate Banking Committee hearing with Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, not pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergMoveOn.org Political Action and Democracy for America said Tuesday they will end their “Run Warren Run” campaign, a months-long push for Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to run for president.
“The Run Warren Run campaign has changed the conversation by showing that Americans are hungry for Elizabeth Warren’s agenda—an agenda that rejects the rigged status quo in Washington and puts working and middle-class Americans over corporate interests,” said Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, in a statement e-mailed by DFA spokesman Neil Sroka. “We’ve assembled a grassroots army and demonstrated the substantial support Sen. Warren could expect if she were to enter the race. Now it’s time to suspend our active draft efforts and pivot to standing alongside Sen. Warren on the big fights ahead, starting with stopping Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”