Tuesday, December, 9th, 2014, 5:51 pm
A petition to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for president collected 25,000 signatures in three hours.
MoveOn.org reported that in the first three hours of their campaign to draft Sen. Warren to be a 2016 presidential candidate, their petition collected 25,000 signatures, “In just over three hours, more than 25,000 people have signed MoveOn’s petition in support of the “Run Warren Run” campaign. The voting to ratify the plan (which is different than the petition) is still ongoing and will close at 9am tomorrow morning.”
MoveOn’s members are going to overwhelmingly support the draft campaign to try to get Warren into the race, but they are unlikely to be successful. Sen. Warren’s office repeated again today that she is not running for president. Sen. Warren has no campaign organization, and the progressive groups that are urging her to run lack the financial resources to compete with Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary.
The petition effort is impressive and should send a message to former Sec. of State Clinton that she will not be able to win the Democratic primary by drifting to the center. The climate is ripe for challenger from the left to take on Mrs. Clinton, but that senator is likely to be Bernie Sanders, not Elizabeth Warren.
Warren was just promoted to a leadership position in the Democratic Senate caucus. She is a figure on the rise within the Democratic Party, who has a bright future either in Senate leadership or an administrative position in the next Democratic administration.
If Hillary Clinton does not run, Warren will probably jump at the chance to be the Democratic nominee. The point is that if Clinton is in the race, Warren most likely won’t be.
Liberals have been empowered within the Democratic Party after their midterm defeat. The left is growing, and they are aching for a candidate that speaks for them. If Hillary Clinton wants to coast to the Democratic nomination, she will be wise to put an ear to the ground and pay close attention to the rumblings beneath her feet.
Photo: Tim Pierce
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