Elizabeth Warren 2016 Endorsement? Bernie Sanders Gets High Praise from Fellow Senator
When she spoke to the Boston Herald, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said that she isn't surprised that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a presidential candidate running for the Democratic nomination, is surging in the polls.
"Bernie's out talking about the issues that the American people want to hear about," Warren told the Herald.
Although she has not officially named who she is going to endorse, Warren certainly did not rule out an endorsement for Sanders, which may also lead her to campaign with the independent senator.
"Bernie is there on the issues. That's what matters to a lot of people," she said.
Warren has been vocal in the media lately and since she's taken office on key issues such as Wall Street reform, student loan reform, immigration reform and most recently, she has taken on her own sitting President in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. These are all issues that Sanders has echoed the same sentiments for and it is not an unlikely scenario that Warren could eventually voice an endorsement for Sanders.
As far as being lobbied for her endorsement by members of her own Democratic Party, Warren did not quite let any beans out of the bag. Although she did have a large list of supporters that wanted her to run for President, the Massachusetts senator did not reveal that her decision not to run has sent supporters packing toward Sanders.
"These are people who care about these issues, and that's who Bernie's reaching," Warren. "I love what Bernie is talking about. I think all the presidential candidates should be out talking about the big issues."
In regards to the issues that people care about, Warren recently wrote an op-ed on Time that summed up the recent SCOTUS ruling in favor of gay rights.
"Our Constitution fiercely guards freedom and liberty, and strongly disapproves of state-sanctioned discrimination," Warren wrote. "The Supreme Court's recent decision in Obergefell v. Hodges recognizing a fundamental right to equal marriage for LGBT Americans sits squarely within both text and tradition."
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