Elizabeth Warren expressed hope Tuesday that Hillary Clinton can run a presidential campaign that will pacify her liberal critics.
“I think we need to give her a chance to decide if she’s going to run … and to lay out what she wants to run on,” Warren said Tuesday morning in an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show. “I think that’s her opportunity to do that.”
Many progressive activists have sought to draw the Massachusetts senator, known for her stark criticisms of Wall Street practices, into the 2016 Democratic presidential primary as a left-wing alternative to Clinton, the presumed frontrunner. Clinton, who has not yet officially declared a presidential campaign, is viewed by many on the left as too close to big business and Wall Street.
Warren ruled out the possibility of a run Tuesday morning, as she has before. “I’m not running and I’m not going to run,” she said.
But she said that she hoped that Clinton and all other candidates would take up her agenda.
“This is really a point that everyone needs to be talking about in every race in every part of this country, about how it is that we build the future,” Warren said. “Because right now Washington is working great for those who have money and power. It’s working great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers. It’s just not working so great for the American people.”
Warren appeared on the show, broadcast from New York City, to promote the paperback version of her autobiography released last year, A Fighting Chance.
Atop the list of her priorities, she said Tuesday, were lowering interest rates on student loans, funding medical research, raising the minimum wage, and passing a law to “strengthen Social Security and expand its reach.”
