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    Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren: A Voter's Guide
    Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren: A Voter's Guide
    Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren: A Voter's Guide
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    Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren: A Voter's Guide

    By Grant Stern

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    Get informed about the campaign issues and policies of Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren, the populist, progressive, definitively capitalist senator from Massachusetts.

    Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren: A Voter’s Guide will help you decide quickly if Warren deserves your vote for the Democratic nomination and to take on Donald Trump for president of the United States. Warren’s strong economic background sets her apart; the senator from Massachusetts defines herself as a capitalist first and seeks to make capitalism more equitable for all. She has already proposed sweeping anti-corruption reforms, refused PAC donations to her campaign, rolled out plans for college debt forgiveness and a tax on the super wealthy. Her background as a Harvard economist, author of TheTwo-Income Trap, and experience as an economic advisor to Barack Obama positions her well to make change happen. 

    Warren’s campaign also features popular Democratic talking points—rebuilding the middle class, ending corruption in Washington, making voting laws more democratic, bringing our troops home and stopping endless war—but it’s her experience that sets her apart. From working the campaign trial for Hillary Clinton to weathering President Trump’s refrain of “Pocahontas” in reference to her claimed Native American heritage, Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren: A Voter’s Guide is your complete handbook to Elizabeth Warren’s resumé, campaign, and what America would look like if she won the presidency in 2020.

    The Meet the Candidates 2020 series is the informed voter’s guide to making a decision in the 2020 Democratic primary and presidential election. Each book gives an unbiased, political insider’s analysis of each contender, featuring: candidate interviews; an introduction by campaign advisor, Democratic Coalition co-founder, and Dworkin Report host Scott Dworkin; and compilation and writing by Occupy Democrats Editor at Large Grant Stern. In two hours of reading, you’ll understand their defining characteristics, credentials, campaign issues, challenges, presidential chances, and everything else you need to know to decide who should challenge Donald Trump. Whether it’s for Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, Cory Booker, or another, Meet the Candidates is what you need to make an informed vote for president in 2020.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781510750326
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      Meet the Candidates 2020 - Scott Dworkin

      INTRODUCTION TO ELIZABETH WARREN

      BY SERIES EDITOR SCOTT DWORKIN

      The first time I met Elizabeth Warren was in November 2012 during her victory party at a friend’s DC office, celebrating her defeat of Senator Scott Brown (R-MA). The event was supposed to be an informal meet and greet, hosted by some of the advisers who worked on her campaign. Just a few people getting together. I arrived at the office and it was packed; she was there. After catching up with friends, I slowly but surely made my way toward the senator-elect. I was about to introduce myself, but at that moment it was time for her to give some remarks. When she finished talking to the room, we immediately said hello to each other.

      She and I spent a minute or so talking, but not about politics. It was about my T-shirt, which was the image of the cover of the book Animal Farm. It wasn’t about if I was a donor, if I could raise her money, throw an event, if I represented a political action committee or any of the numerous things typical politicians want to know in DC. It was about my T-shirt and Orwell’s book. Having a conversation with her isn’t like speaking to most other politicians.

      My first impression of Senator-elect Warren after meeting her, and after that campaign, was that she was fearless. She wasn’t going to be intimidated by anyone, including big banks or folks on Wall Street. She wasn’t going to be deterred from taking hard stances against gigantic corporations that were abusing the American people. And that stance wouldn’t change just because you gave her money.

      My first impression was right.

      I thought to myself, this is how true progressives operate. This is the beginning of a true progressive leader joining the Senate. Someone who cannot be bought.

      Warren became that progressive leader because she took a chance and decided to run against a Republican incumbent in Massachusetts. It took what felt like forever for her to decide to run, not just to build suspense, but to actually take the time to think about it. It definitely looked like an uphill climb, so one could understand hesitation. The Harvard professor wound up pummeling Senator Brown by more than seven points. She overperformed in nearly nine out of the ten polls in the race.

      Now, Elizabeth Warren is taking that same grit and bringing it to the national stage in her run for president. You could tell the moment she announced that her candidacy would be taken very seriously. She was immediately perceived as a viable challenger by President Trump and his political allies. Trump had attacked Warren over her family’s oral history of Native American ancestry by assigning her the racist nickname of Pocahontas. He continued those unpresidential attacks the day she announced her candidacy. On February 9, 2019, the day Warren launched her campaign, the President tweeted, Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!

      It was his eighth tweet attacking Senator Warren in the last two years.

      Trump was obviously attacking Warren because she is a clear threat to his presidency, both in the Senate and in her bid for the White House. He doesn’t want people to realize that you can actually have a thought-provoking and inspirational person like Senator Warren in the White House. Ironically, voters have shown with a remarkable consistency that they’re uninterested in her family’s oral history, just as polling has shown since her first Senate race. It’s only a matter of interest to journalists.

      It takes a lot of guts to step up and take on corruption at the highest levels, which Senator Warren has made the top issue of her campaign. It’s not easy. And that’s exactly what Warren’s done in her time in the Senate since day one. Things have—obviously—been kicked up a notch corruption-wise in this country as of late. Warren’s leadership fighting against those who defraud the American people is needed now more than ever. And Warren has been more than up for the challenge.

      To make it clear her campaign wouldn’t be influenced by donors, Senator Warren made a bold move with her 2020 presidential campaign to not hold any high-dollar fund-raisers, or focus on fund-raising on the phones like most candidates. As a person who had to direct hundreds of candidates to fund-raise over the course of the last decade, it was pretty refreshing to hear someone commit to changing the status quo for how a presidential campaign operates. Fund-raising calls take up a lot of time and energy. Many political candidates, including incumbents, are forced to make well over eight hours of calls for money per day. At the minimum.

      Most first-time candidates for political office would love to be able to make the pledge of making no donor calls, but they aren’t able to have an operational campaign without money. Due to Warren’s massive groundswell of grassroots support, she doesn’t have to rely on gigantic donors or independent expenditure groups like super PACs to support her campaign.

      Instead, she can focus on voters and championing their needs.

      But of course, her pledge to not really have a full-fledged fund-raising operation also has its pitfalls. The more money you have, the more staff you can hire, the more ads you can run, and so on. And with such a crowded field, money may be one of the determining factors of viability when considering who to vote for in the Democratic primary. In the end, I think her decision to leave big money out of her own politics now is well worth the risk.

      If you want to truly flush out corruption in politics, you’re going to have to take bold steps to make it clear that you can’t be bought. Not having a traditional fund-raising operation should rid people of most doubt.

      Senator Warren can’t pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United court decision, but she’s going to hold her own campaign accountable.

      Rebuilding America’s middle class has become a major issue being pushed by Warren’s campaign. Warren wants people to be able to live a comfortable life, not have to struggle constantly, or stress about having enough money to keep the lights on.

      Nobody should worry if they’re going put food on their tables. Nobody working a full-time job should worry about earning a livable wage or the cost of health insurance. They shouldn’t have to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet. And sometimes that’s not even enough. As it stands, most Americans don’t even have enough money to cover a $1,000 emergency. People are struggling just to get by.

      Warren was the fortunate beneficiary of having a family member available to help raise her two children. That’s why she believes nobody with kids should have to pray for good fortune just to find affordable child care for babies and toddlers.

      Warren believes everyone should get a fair shake, and doesn’t believe the US government is doing enough to make it happen. Given the tough financial position a lot of Americans are in, it’s fair to say there needs to be a fighter in the White House who can help people get back on their feet.

      She has real plans with real independent analysis that would lower the cost of rent across America, create jobs, provide a universal child care plan, and raise taxes on the very wealthiest few to end loopholes that the ultra-wealthy use to evade paying their fair share. These are commonsense reforms that will be complex to overhaul, which is Warren’s specialty. She knows how to assemble vast amounts of data and figure out what really works and has the skills to direct a team to make that happen.

      In order to rebuild the middle class, we need a president who

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