A day after moving toward a 2020 White House bid, Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced plans Tuesday to speak at events in Iowa, where the first votes in the race are cast.
Warren, D-Mass., listed planned appearances in the state on her Facebook page, with stops scheduled for Saturday in the cities of Des Moines, Sioux City, and Storm Lake, 13 months before caucus voting begins there in February 2020.
Warren said Monday that she had launched an exploratory committee to run for president in the next election, which allows her to raise money without formally declaring.
In doing so, Warren effectively became the highest-profile Democrat to jump into a race that is expected to include many competitors.
A longtime bankruptcy law professor at Harvard, Warren joined the Senate in 2013 and has drawn support from liberals for her economic populist message and push for strict regulation of Wall Street.
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