Elizabeth Warren says she won’t get ‘Hillary’d’ in 2020

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has no intention of being “Hillary’d” in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

That was the phrase, used as shorthand by a student asking about sexist attacks during a CNN town hall Monday night, that prompted Warren to recall her successful 2012 campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

It was a campaign, Warren said, that almost never happened. Democrats were telling her she ought to run, that she’d make a great senator. But there was a catch: Most of them were confident Warren would lose, and didn’t mind telling her.

“I heard that,” Warren remembered on Monday, “as ‘Get in this race, right now.’ Which is what I did.”

Warren defeated Brown handily, after some controversial early news coverage, continuing an ascent that led her into this 2020 presidential primary — after being reelected to the Senate comfortably last year.

The road ahead, Warren continued, looked a lot like what came before.

“So the way I see it,” she said, “is here we are in a presidential (campaign), and it’s the same kind of — you stay after it every day. One might say you persist.”

Warren also shared her blueprint.

“Organize, build a grassroots movement, fight for working people,” she said. “And that’s how I’m going to be the first woman elected president of the United States.”

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