A super PAC urging Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for presidency has to change its name, according to the Federal Election Commission.
The Chicago-based “Ready for Warren PAC,” formed last month with the main goal of drafting the Massachusetts senator to run for president in 2016. But the FEC told the PAC Sunday that unless it is authorized by Warren, it can’t use her name, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
Since the PAC is not endorsed by Warren, it has to change its name so “that it does not include the candidate’s name and/or provide further clarification regarding the nature of your committee,” FEC campaign finance analyst Romy Adame-Wilson wrote in a letter to the PAC.
A failure to do so by Oct. 14 could “result in an enforcement action against the committee.”
Marc Elias, Warren’s election attorney, disavowed the Ready for Warren PAC in a statement to the FEC.
Warren, who has been Massachusetts’ senator since 2012, has repeatedly shot down ideas of running for the Democratic ticket.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls has Warren third behind Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden for the presidential nomination
