Run Warren Run is no more.
The campaign by Democracy for America and MoveOn.org Political Action will suspend operations next Monday after their long-shot effort to encourage Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president 2016.
The effort spent half a year urging Warren to run, such as staging rallies, gathering 365,000 signatures and even opening offices in Iowa and New Hampshire. However, Warren hasn’t budged on her intention not to run.
“Even without her in the race, Elizabeth Warren and the Run Warren Run campaign she inspired have already transformed the 2016 presidential election by focusing every single Democratic candidate on combatting our country’s income inequality crisis,” Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America, said in a statement.
“We still think there’s plenty of time for Sen. Warren to change her mind, but now that we’ve shown that she has the support she would need to mount a winning a campaign, we’re excited to take the grassroots juggernaut we’ve built with our members and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Warren in the battles ahead.”
Warren enjoys strong support from Democrats who have taken to her message that big Wall Street banks need to face even tougher federal regulations. So far, that fight has been taken up by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a declared 2016 candidate.
Despite the efforts of Run Warren Run, Warren’s name had not made waves in a RealClearPolitics average of polls.
“[T]here’s no sugar-coating it,” Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org and Chamberlain, wrote in an op-ed. “We didn’t achieve our central goal.”
