Elizabeth Warren Says She Is Not Running In 2016, Nobody Believes Her
Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts has been headlining the news of late for her rail on the Senate floor against what she says is a Citibank-backed bill to gut Wall Street regulation, which was reported on the Inquisitr. She also pointedly said at least four times that she is not running in 2016 during a press conference after the speech.
Warren had to say it four times because NPR’s Steve Inskeep kept asking her about it, reports CNN. Needling her verbage of denial, which was always in the present tense (“I am not running for president,” she repeated all four times), Inskeep kept at it. Saying that and saying she is “not running in 2016” are two separate things, CNN points out. The idea of Senator Warren running in 2016 is not too far out and at least some believe it would be a good idea.
“I am not running for president.”
The Inquisitr called Warren “A new voice of leadership for Democrats.” An opinion piece in the Boston Herald quotes U.S. Representative Michael E. Capuano on Boston Herald Radio as fully supporting a Warren run along side Hillary Clinton or on her own. “If she runs for president I will be with her, I have told her that,” he is quoted as saying about Senator Warren. Although she has made no announcement at this point, neither has Hillary, and so while technically they are both not running in 2016, it doesn’t mean they won’t. Warren’s carefully-worded denials and Clinton’s sheepishness about being seen jumping in too soon (per the Wall Street Journal) aren’t evidence either way.
The Washington Post even goes so far as to say that if it appears Warren does plan to run, Hillary would be well-advised to announce first, which could prompt Warren to rethink plans about running in 2016. Otherwise, Clinton might lose her trump and be seen as the “other” woman.
“No means no.. Nothing has changed. I am not running for president.”
Despite her saying this and making it clear she has not made an announcement about running in 2016, a group of 300 organizers who worked on President Obama’s campaigns signed a letter backing an effort to draft Senator Warren as the Democrat Party candidate in 2016. The “Ready for Warren” effort is an attempt to get the senator to rescind her “not running in 2016” rhetoric and announce while acting as a sort of exploratory committee for the idea, says the Boston Herald.
It appears that her announcement that she is not running in 2016 has been taken as an announcement that Senator Warren is thinking about it.
