Campaign to Draft Warren Suspends Efforts

[George II]

Source: Real Clear Politics

By Andrew Desiderio - June 2, 2015

Two advocacy groups encouraging Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016 have suspended their efforts.

The liberal senator has said repeatedly she will not seek the Oval Office next year, a message that seems to have finally hit home with her staunchest advocates.

Though leaders of Democracy for America and MoveOn.org, the two groups behind the six-month-old “Run Warren Run” effort, acknowledged not achieving their “central goal,” they are not admitting defeat. Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, and Charles Chamberlain, executive director of DFA, wrote in a Politico op-ed Tuesday morning that Warren’s influence is already present in the race for the White House.

“In the six months since we launched the Run Warren Run effort, Senator Warren’s agenda and message have transformed the American political landscape,” Sheyman and Chamberlain asserted. “Even some Republicans are positioning themselves to run against inequality (although their proposals would exacerbate it).”

Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/02/campaign_to_draft_warren_suspends_efforts_126823.html

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. I didn't want her to run.

I wanted her to remain a Senator at least for another term.

And I like her where she is as my Senator.

[yuiyoshida]

2. Since many of her ideas are like Bernie's I am hoping they

will jump on Bernie's band wagon.

[wordpix]

6. I jumped to Bernie but also like O'Malley

HRC is 3rd on my list so far

[840high]

8. I like Bernie and O"Malley - Hillary

is not on my list.

[davidpdx]

11. Me too

I supported the campaign, but knew she wasn't going to get in the race. It still got some issues out there that needed to and maybe even helped persuade Sanders to run because of the overlapping support on those ideas.

[RBInMaine]

3. Do the holdouts NOW believe that she actually meant what she said????

She said she wasn't running numerous times. This "draft Warren" stuff was a waste of time and money.

[brooklynite]

4. But she could change her mind!

Right up until the Electoral College votes...

[geek tragedy]

5. even then, she could invent a time machine . . . nt

[eggplant]

7. I expect the people whose time and money were spent don't consider it "wasted". n/t

But feel free to kick some more sand in their faces.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Of course it was wasted

That money/effort could have gone to Bernie or some other candidate.

Instead the money was tossed down the drain.

[eggplant]

10. Prior to Bernie declaring...

...there was no other candidate.

And it was their money to do with as they pleased. It isn't your place (or mine) to judge that.

[sofa king]

12. I think she'll be asked to be HRC's running mate.

I don't know if she'd be interested and I haven't seen any favorability numbers, but in my own mind a Clinton/Warren ticket would be unstoppable and might serve to protect both of them from a certain candidate who can't even hope to get close enough to steal it unless HRC "drops out..." of the sky.