The front page of the website Ready for Warren is dominated by a letter signed by over 300 former Barack Obama campaign staffers begging the Massachusetts senator to run for the Democratic Party nomination for President:
We helped elect Barack Obama — now we’re calling on Elizabeth Warren to run in 2016
We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance.
We worked for him — and against all odds, we won in Iowa.
We organized like no campaign had organized before — and won the Democratic primary.
We built a movement — and the country elected the first-ever African American president.
We know that the improbable is far from impossible.
Now, former staffers from President Obama’s campaigns, along with former staffers from OFA, are joining with the thousands of Americans who are calling on Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy.Warren has constantly said she is not running for president, but the movement pushing her to run is gaining momentum. On Tuesday the powerful progressive group, MoveOn (which was started by George Soros to help Bill Clinton) announced a $1 million campaign to draft Warren for president in 2016.
We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016
According to CNN
Through her lawyer, Warren even disavowed Ready for Warren, a super PAC hoping to draft the liberal senator.Given the choice for a potential GOP presidential candidate to run against Clinton or Warren, I would pick the Pocahontas-wannabe any day of the week.
"As Senator Warren has said many times, she is not running for president," Lacey J. Rose, Warren's press secretary, said on Tuesday.
Let's hope Santa comes through for us.
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