Elizabeth Warren’s latest move threatens to diminish her street cred with progressive activists – especially when compared to the more dogmatic Bernie Sanders.
Eager to cash in on her strong debate performance, the still-floundering White House hopeful announced she is reversing her decision to accept support from Super PACs.
The flip-flop follows the onetime first-tier candidate’s third and fourth-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Per Fox News:
Speaking to reporters on Thursday after a stop at a campaign field office in North Las Vegas ahead of Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, Warren said: “If all the candidates want to get rid of super PACs, count me in, I’ll lead the charge. But that’s how it has to be. It can’t be the case that a bunch of people keep them and one or two don’t.”
2020 Watch: Asked whether she’ll disavow a super PAC backing her bid, @ewarren says “if all the candidates want to get rid of super PACs, count me in, I’ll lead the charge. But that’s how it has to be. It can’t be the case that a bunch of people keep them and one or two don’t” pic.twitter.com/DfW3RfsMQ3
— Paul Steinhauser (@steinhauserNH1) February 21, 2020
Earlier in the campaign cycle, Warren repeatedly tried but failed to have her Democratic nomination rivals join her in repudiating such outside spending groups.
“The first day I got in this race over a year ago, I said I hope every presidential candidate who comes in will agree — no super PACs for any of us. I renewed that call dozens of times,” Warren explained. “And I couldn’t get a single Democrat to go along with it.”
“Finally, we reached the point a few weeks ago where all of the men who were still in this race and on the debate stage all had either super PACs or they were multi-billionaires and could just rummage around their sock drawers and find enough money to be able to fund a campaign,” the senator added.
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