Elizabeth Warren, a senator and a sharp critic of big banks and unregulated capitalism, entered the 2020 race for president on Monday, December 31, 2018, becoming the first major candidate in what is likely to be a long and crowded primary marked by ideological and generational divisions in a Democratic Party determined to beat President Trump.
The move makes Warren, the first prominent Democrat to announce ambitions to run in the 2020 election.
Ms Warren said as a politician she has always fought for middle class people and indicated that she would continue speaking out for workers who earn average wages, minorities and the rights of families if she becomes a presidential candidate.
“Every person in America should be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules, take care of themselves and the people they love,’’ Warren wrote in a statement on her website.
“That’s what I’m fighting for and that’s why I’m launching an exploratory committee for president.’’
Warren is likely to be among a large field of Democrats seeking the nomination, similar to the situation in 2016 in the Republican Party, which gave rise to the outsider candidacy of Donald Trump.
Ms. Warren, 69, is among the best-known Democrats seeking to take on Mr. Trump, whom she has denounced in the past as “a thin-skinned racist bully” and a “wannabe tyrant.” Mr. Trump, who has already announced his re-election campaign, frequently mocks her as “Pocahontas” because of her claims to Native American ancestry, a slur Native American groups have denounced as a racist epithet.
Other potential candidates from the centre-left party are former vice president Joe Biden and independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who was beaten by Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
Several other senators, including Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown and Kirsten Gillibrand, have been named as potential candidates.
U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke, who in November lost a bid to unseat Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, is also considered a possible candidate.
The first round of primaries begin early in 2020 in Iowa.
