Former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren will officially launch her campaign for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts on Wednesday, challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, a source close to Warren told TPM on Tuesday.
“The pressures on middle class families are worse than ever, but it is the big corporations that get their way in Washington,” Warren said in a statement. “I want to change that. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.”
Warren has been exploring a run in recent weeks, and has been on a listening tour of the state.
This is excellent news. Now, Scott Brown's record on voting has him to the left of a few Blue Dog Dems in the Senate, but I'd take Elizabeth Warren as his replacement in a heartbeat. The main reason Scott Brown is even Senator is because Martha Coakley ran the worst Senate campaign in Massachusetts history, but also because Democrats started surrendering to the emo back in January 2010. In hindsight, Republican control of the House was inevitable when we had people giving up as early as then.
Brown's seat is one of the rare pickup opportunities we have in the Senate now, and the time to start motivating people to vote for Liz Warren is now. We will not get rid of Republican obstruction without more and better Democrats in Congress.
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