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      Senator Elizabeth Warren takes major step towards White House bid

      Warren is a fierce critic of Donald Trump.

      ew Senator Elizabeth Warren Andrew Harnik / AP/Press Association Images Andrew Harnik / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

      DEMOCRATIC SENATOR ELIZABETH Warren — a fierce critic of US President Donald Trump — today took a major step towards a likely run for president, seeking to upset the incumbent Republican in 2020.

      Warren, who has represented Massachusetts in the Senate since 2013, is a progressive Democrat. The 69-year-old said she was launching an exploratory committee for president, which would help her raise funds early in the campaign cycle.

      “America’s middle class is under attack,” she said in a video message on Twitter.

      “How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie, and they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice.

      “Every person in America should be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules, and take care of themselves and the people they love,” Warren said.

      That’s what I’m fighting for and that’s why I’m launching an exploratory committee for president. I need you with me.

      Warren has been a frequent sparring partner for Trump, who has repeatedly mocked her claim to have Native American heritage by calling her Pocahontas.

      Pocahontas was a Native American woman who lived in the 17th century and is known in US history for her encounters with colonial settlers in Jamestown, in what is now Virginia.

      © AFP 2019 

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:24 PM

        Democrats have lost the plot if they think she can defeat Trump. She is part of the Establishment will no doubt get the support of celebrities and will loose against Trump. The political climate has changed what is needed is somebody like Bernie Sanders to take on Trump and win.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:26 PM

        @GO GREEN: lol

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:56 PM

        @DrRexButts: it’s nice how ye’re still clinging to bizarre and unproven conspiracies to justify the wide scale rejection of your politics rather than engage in even the most basic levels of introspection to try and understand why your politics have been so widely rejected by ordinary people. Tell me, is it those big bad Russians that have caused the political sea changes in Italy, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Britain, Brazil, etc. or do you have bespoke conspiracy theories for each society that rejects progressive nonsense democratically?

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:58 PM

        @DrRexButts: those pesky Russians… I know, get Boris Yeltsin to run… he’s dead, but the dead vote Democrat over there
        https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1059516954841673729?s=19

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        Dec 31st 2018, 5:51 PM

        @GO GREEN: democrats best hope is a centrist. Lefty logic is dead. Garbage

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        Dec 31st 2018, 6:45 PM

        @DrRexButts: democrats need to understand they lost and unless they embrace that fact they will ose again. The fantasy of Russians manipulating elections defies logic. Democrats need to look into their own corrupt black heart.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:22 PM

        @The Lone wolfe: bot

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:24 PM

        @Austin Rock: sure that’s why they won in record numbers in the mid terms. Were you asleep for that ?

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        Jan 1st 2019, 7:47 AM

        @Michael farrelly: A few of the posters above you,they will probably tell you that the mid-term election results was ‘fake news’ :-)

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:32 PM

        The odds of Pocahontas winning the election – 1/1024th

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:24 PM

        @The Lone wolfe: nasty trump lover

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:31 PM

        If she wins, she’ll be the first native American president since, well, since Donald Trump.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:35 PM

        @Before it’s too late: is Donald A native American l guess NOT

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        Dec 31st 2018, 4:28 PM

        @Before it’s too late: brilliant lol

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:59 PM

        Can’t wait to see Trump take down looney Warren. The democrats have learned nothing, and Trump’s America is booming!

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:25 PM

        @Mike Conway: em, have you seen the stock market or are you a bot .

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        Dec 31st 2018, 9:10 PM

        @Michael farrelly: yes I have seen it. Close to all time highs. Zoom out on the chart Princess

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        Dec 31st 2018, 9:40 PM

        @Mike Conway: like a giant bubble

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:14 PM

        @Bluey: don’t zoom out too far or you’ll see that it’s down on this time last year and generally going down long term. Dow is up 3000 from this time two years ago but down 3000 from this time last year. Instability is definitely not good.

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        Jan 1st 2019, 12:27 AM

        @Mike Conway: Fake News

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:15 PM

        Let’s hope she can avoid the small pox blankets between now and 2020 so.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:16 PM

        Trump will win in 2020, Democrats best hope will be Tulsi Gabbard in 2024.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:29 PM

        @Paul Kelly: Perhaps they will try Bernie Saunders and Gabbard as running mate for 2020…Move to the left….

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:30 PM

        @Paul Kelly: A far left Hawaiian liberal has no hope in the next 16 years.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 6:21 PM

        @Baron Adams TD: A mixed race Hawaiian? No Hope?

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:26 PM

        @Paul Kelly: he’ll be in jail before the end of 2019

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:29 PM

        @Michael farrelly: Probably wishful thinking. Trump is a survivor.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 3:42 PM

        Don’t know the lady, but a tag line like ‘fierce critic of Trump’ is not enough. Surely she has more to offer than that, if not, we could be stuck with him a while longer.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 4:24 PM

        This “progressive” voted for an increase in an already inflated military budget.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 4:11 PM

        Whats with the age of all the candidates in US elections? By no measure are people in their prime mentally or physically in their 70s.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 7:50 PM

        She can count on 1\2064th of the native American vote anyway.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:27 PM

        @Jefferson Starfish: how clever of you

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        Dec 31st 2018, 4:39 PM

        Ridiculous headline. She’s announcing but won’t be within an ass’s roar of the Whitehouse.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 4:39 PM

        Delighted if she doe! This lady is a class act bringing both bloated unions and corporations to answer for their exploitation of ordinary people.

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        Jan 1st 2019, 7:50 AM

        @LynchTrea: shhhhhhhhh…some of the folks on here only heard about her because of Trump calling her silly names.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 5:26 PM

        Joe Biden is the only Dem I could see beating Trump right now. Biden v Trump would be box office

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        Dec 31st 2018, 5:50 PM

        @Inanimate Carbon Rod: low energy

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:12 PM

        Name a Democrat who is not a “fierce critic of Donald Trump” LOL

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        Jan 2nd 2019, 11:08 AM

        @WreckDefier: Donald Trump himself??

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        Dec 31st 2018, 4:49 PM

        Strong Candidate though if Bernie doesn’t run I would prefer Kamala Harris.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:14 PM

        @Edmund Murphy: Why on Earth would you want Kamala Harris, Biden is the only electoral hope for democrats

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:45 PM

        Biden and Sanders the only Democrats able to beat Trump in 2020 in my opinion. If Trump runs with Rand Paul in 2020 I think he’ll be a dead cert. That is of course unless the unstable, bubble economy that Trump inherited (but claimed credited for) collapses before.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:35 PM

        @Daniel Donovan: Dont think Trump can be beaten, he has delivered, like it or not, what was promised.
        Economy is roaring , unemployment is 3.7% , troops being pulled back from the illegal invasion of Syria , you may dislike is uncouthness, but I believe history will be much kinder to Trump.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:42 PM

        @paul kelly: The entire US economy is riding a huge bubble and whether he’s re-elected or not depends on whether the crash occurs before or after the election process. He made a mistake claiming credit for the bubble mark my words. And believe me I’m no leftist.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 10:44 PM

        @paul kelly: And I’m delighted about the decision on Syria.

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        Jan 1st 2019, 12:16 AM

        @paul kelly: Mexico paying for the wall?

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        Jan 1st 2019, 8:33 AM

        @Daniel Donovan: agree it is a bubble, but claiming credit for bubbles before crashes is what Politicians do.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 6:27 PM

        Looking good for Trump though: polling indicates 87% of people who (like Doofus) would love to fv<k Ivanka, think Mexico is paying for the wall…

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        Dec 31st 2018, 8:28 PM

        @Martello Mulligan: bull

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        Dec 31st 2018, 5:07 PM

        Trumps protectionist policies is not good for europe. bernie and warren together would be better for us.

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        Dec 31st 2018, 5:44 PM

        I’d like her to win but don’t think she will it’s v hard to beat the incumbent even one like the orange idiot

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        Jan 2nd 2019, 9:14 PM

        Lol will Pocahontas ever learn

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        Jan 2nd 2019, 3:46 AM

        What can you do that hundreds are trying to destabilize the government
        And let Great LEADER continue his work.ar sigh le President Trump.

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