Elizabeth Warren gains ground in 2020 field, one plan at a time
To the crowd of Iowans gathered in a school gym on Saturday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a request: They should pose a question to the other presidential candidates who come to Iowa seeking their vote.
“Ask them: Where do you get your money?” she said. “Are you getting it from a bunch of millionaires?”
For Ms. Warren, the question highlighted one of the sharpest contrasts she has drawn with most of her top rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination: She has sworn off holding private fund-raisers with wealthy donors. “The best president money can’t buy,” signs and T-shirts for her campaign say.
“I like that very much,” Cheryl Scherr, 63, said afterward, “because that means that she’s not beholden to anybody.”
After five months as a presidential candidate, Ms. Warren is showing signs of success at distinguishing herself in a packed field. She has inched higher in national polls and, at events within the last month, consistently overshot the campaign’s expected number of attendees. [Continue reading…]