Campaign To Draft Elizabeth Warren For President Comes To A Halt

[Cali_Democrat]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) isn’t running for president. And one of the main groups created to encourage her to run for president will soon stop running, too.

Run Warren Run, the collaborative effort by progressive organizations to show Warren that she had supporters, commitment and money for a 2016 presidential bid, will suspend operations on June 8. Time, political winds, and, in all likelihood, Bernie Sanders were the culprits.

“Over the last six months, from our perspective, the possibility of Warren running has had a transformative effect on the political debate in that it has elevated Warren’s fight into something more than moment to moment legislative battles,” said Ben Wikler, Washington director of MoveOn.org, one of the groups behind Run Warren Run. “Do we wish she were running? Absolutely. Do we wish we had not tried to get her to run? Not in the slightest.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/elizabeth-warren-run-warren-run_n_7489602.html

[djean111]

1. They asked for comments. And a donation.

I told them that I would be donating to Bernie, and that while I would certainly understand that it is just politics as usual if they endorse Hillary, my support goes to Bernie.

[Sheepshank]

2. So will there still be Warren siggy lines seen here on DU? n/t

[NightWatcher]

3. but somewhere on the net a guy posts that this doesn't mean she isn't running

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Translation = Another money making venture by MoveOn "comes to a halt". Pffft.

[DanTex]

5. So, that whole time, she was telling the truth about not running.

Unbelievable. Because I kept reading from DUers about how she was playing word games and using jedi mind tricks, and really she was really really going to run. Hmm. I wonder if those same people could possibly ever be wrong about anything else...