They were ready for Warren, but it appears Warren wasn’t ready for them.
The two groups spearheading the “Run Warren Run” campaign to encourage Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to make a bid for president in 2016 will abandon their efforts next Monday.
MoveOn.org Political Action and Democracy for America have been hard at work since December of last year, collecting support for Warren’s seemingly nonexistent presidential run. Next week, the groups will deliver a petition with over 365,000 signatures calling for Warren’s White House run to her office on Capitol Hill.
“The groups will then rest their case and suspend their draft effort, pivoting their focus to working alongside Sen. Warren and other progressive populists on issue fights like defeating Fast Track negotiating authority for the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement,” details a post on MoveOn.org.
The executive director of MoveOn.org Ilya Sheyman emphasized the strong impact of the “Run Warren Run” campaign in a statement to Bloomberg.
“The Run Warren Run campaign has changed the conversation by showing that Americans are hungry for Elizabeth Warren’s agenda — an agenda that rejects the rigged status quo in Washington and puts working and middle-class Americans over corporate interests,” detailed Sheyman. “We’ve assembled a grassroots army and demonstrated the substantial support Sen. Warren could expect if she were to enter the race.”
While two are giving up, one pro-Warren group still holds out hope that its effort will eventually prompt the progressive Massachusetts senator to enter the 2016 race.
The Ready for Warren campaign manager Erica Sagrans explained in a statement, “Already, Senator Warren has become Hillary Clinton’s top challenger, and as the primary unfolds we’ll continue to show voters — and Warren herself — that Elizabeth Warren is needed as a candidate in this race.”
