Senator Elizabeth Warren is ending her presidential campaign to be the democratic nominee.
She is announcing her decision to her staffers on Thursday (March 5). She had a disappointing showing in the Super Tuesday primaries, despite having a large fan base.
Her departure comes after the departures of Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Michael Bloomberg. They all endorsed Joe Biden. It’s unclear if Elizabeth Warren will be endorsing any candidate at this time. Bernie Sanders is also still in the running.
March 3 marks the most important day in the primary calendar: fourteen states and one territory in the United States are holding contests for the Democratic Party presidential candidate.
The polls are closing in the following states and territories throughout the course of the evening: Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Maine, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Utah, California, American Samoa.
More than 1,300 delegates — about a third of the total — are up for grabs, marking a deciding factor in choosing the Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election who will go up against President Donald Trump.
Elizabeth Warren stops by Jimmy Kimmel Live! for an emotional appearance ahead of Super Tuesday.
The 70-year-old U.S. Senator chatted with host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday (March 2).
While discussing her Democratic presidential campaign and Super Tuesday, Elizabeth said, “For me, it’s about having built this whole movement across the country. We’ve now done well over 100,000 selfies. A lot of them are just fun, people giggle and make funny faces. But there are also the ones where somebody comes through—the little girl is adorable and she passes on through, and the mom gives me a hug and says, ‘Please hang on to health care, she has brain cancer.’ Someone will say to me, ‘I have student loans and you’re my last hope. I am never going to get out of this hole in my whole life.’”
“It’s about every 20th person,” she continued. “It’s all fun and then someone, it’s honestly like a knife between the ribs because it is so painful. They so much need a government on their side. They’re not asking for a handout—they’re just asking for a government that’s on their side.”
“Number one, you have to vote for the person you think would make the best president of the United States, period,” she added. “I think that’s people’s sacred obligation. But I also believe those things don’t diverge. Over time as more comes out about people, the person who will make the best president is also the person who has the best chance of beating Donald Trump. It’s going to take standing up against Donald Trump, you bet. But it’s also going to take talking about our affirmative vision of the kind of America we want to be. Do we just want to say, hey look, just get rid of Donald Trump and we’ll go back to the way things were before? No. We have this opportunity, an amazing opportunity in 2020, to fix a lot of what’s been broken for a long time in this country.”
She also took aim at Michael Bloomberg (“It’s not personal, it’s just everything about him”), talked potential running mates, and more.
Elizabeth Warren says that Coronavirus is a “public health crisis” that we need to be worried about, unlike President Donald Trump who called it a “hoax” the other day.
Six people in the United States have died from the virus. There are 3,000 deaths currently around the world and 90,000 people have been infected.
Luckily for us, Warren has proposed a great plan that will help contain the virus if and when it spreads in the United States.
“We should be very worried. This is a time for real leadership, so I’ve been putting out plans about this for a while now,” Warren said during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (airing on Tuesday). “I think we should make all testing for the virus entirely free and when a vaccine comes out, we should make that free. If anyone is quarantined, we should pay the wages for them. Just set aside a sum of money to do that.”
“We don’t want people thinking, ‘Gee, I can’t afford to get tested or I can’t afford to lose some days at work.’ It will keep us all safer if we put the money in to try to help people who are facing this problem,” she added. “And the second part of this: We have to understand this is a public health crisis, but it is also potentially a huge financial crisis. Already, supply lines for parts are being disrupted because big parts of China are shut down. That has an effect on businesses and jobs right here in America and then around the rest of the world, which echoes back to America. So we also need to be moving right now on a financial front and I’ve put together a proposal for a stimulus package to keep the economy boosted up. And to say to the Federal Reserve, it’s time to open up the window and make it possible for businesses that have been affected by this virus to be able to borrow at very low rates if they agree not to lay off their employees. We need to cushion the effects of this. It’s time for leadership. Real leadership.”
The Coronavirus portion of the video starts at the 5:18 mark.
Elizabeth Warren is addressing the state of the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee and whether she’ll stay in the race beyond Super Tuesday.
The senator spoke out during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which will air on Tuesday (March 3).
Elizabeth explained to Ellen that Super Tuesday has that name because “40% of all the delegates that will determine who the nominee is for the Democratic party are up for grabs.”
Ellen asked, “So, depending on how you do today with Super Tuesday, will that dictate whether you stay in or drop out?”
“So, you know obviously, you want to see what’s happening. But when I first got in this race, I always figured it was going to be a long, long race and that it was unlikely that anybody was going to get a majority, although I’m out there fighting for it every day. This is kind of for me the fight of my life. I’m not somebody who looked in the mirror and said, ‘Oh, President’ when I was 17. I looked in the mirror and said, ‘Public school teacher,’” she said.
Elizabeth then told a story about her family and a lesson she learned from her mother, which was, “no matter how hard it looks, and no matter how scared you are, you get out there, and you fight for your family, and you fight for the people you love and that’s why I am in this fight.”
During the interview, Elizabeth also talked about her opponent Bernie Sanders, how she would beat Donald Trump, and she also played a game.
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