Can this woman convince Elizabeth Warren to run for president?

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By Nia-Malika Henderson

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has had a good, strong run of public appearances and headlines over the last several days, further driving the presidential buzz surrounding her.

She showed up in West Virginia July 14 to rally Democrats around long-shot Senate candidate Natalie Tennant, testing whether her brand of Northeastern liberalism could play in an increasingly conservative state. The standing-room-only crowd that cheered her fiery message suggested that she passed that test.

Known for taking the big banks to the woodshed in several Senate hearings, Warren also added to her greatest video hits on July 15 with a tough grilling of Federal Reserve Janet Yellen.

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She The People reached out to Erica Sagrans, the 31-year old campaign manager for the Warren-in-waiting presidential campaign. Sagrans has never met Warren, who is not affiliated with the Ready for Warren group, but she could be one of the key people that could convince Warren to run for the White House.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation

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[MADem]

1. Unlikely.

Why trade a position where EW can actually have clout with economic policy as head of the Banking Committee, to a position where one has to wait for Congress to pass legislation?

That's aside from the fact that she pledged to not run, on top of saying she wasn't running dozens of times. Her constituents would not support her going back on her word, and she knows it. That's why the only visits to states that she's done are to support OTHER candidates for election, not to develop a 50 state strategy.

She's well behind the fundraising curve if she was intending to run, too. There's the big hint that she's not going to "change her mind" right there.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Because the BAD that Hillary will do cannot be offset by a Senator, any senator.

That's why.

[MADem]

4. A bit hyperbolic, that. nt

[NYC_SKP]

5. Consider aiming higher than another Clinton epoch.

Me, I can't stand another reaming.

Big Dog. Bubba.

[MADem]

6. Well, I happen to like Hillary Clinton as well as Elizabeth Warren.

I think they like each other, too--despite attempts to characterize them in other ways.

[roguevalley]

7. In the book Clinton Inc it showed that Bill Clinton was advising McCain during the

campaign. Nice. Nothing like the modern third way democrat that he is to make you want to run right out and vote for his wife.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Hillary also pledged to not run in 2016, several times.

But that's... different.

The presidency is the most powerful position in the world, when its used as such. That's why I'm pretty sure the good people of our Commonwealth will cheer Warren on to the White House.

[MADem]

10. No she didn't. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

11. You'd think by now...

Enjoy:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/hillary-clintons-quotes-on-2016-86804.html

[MADem]

12. I don't see a single "pledge" in all that.

I see "I think..." and demurring comments, but no Sherman statement like EW made. No "I pledge to retire" like EW said "I pledge to serve out my term."

So, I did enjoy ... not finding what you claimed was there...!

[MannyGoldstein]

13. "I have ruled it out."

Hard to tell what that means, you're right.

[daleanime]

14. Definitely.....

open to interpretation.

[MADem]

15. Manny, maybe you are unclear on the meaning of the term "Pledge?"

It's like an oath, a promise.

It's entirely possible for someone to rule something out, and then change their mind. There was no "promise" to constituents or anyone else made by HRC to not run in that link you provided.

Senator Warren, on the other hand "PLEDGED" to finish out her term.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/the_truth_squad/2013/12/elizabeth_warren_pledges_she_wont_run_for

When peppered about her intentions, she added: "I pledge to serve out my term.

"I am not running for president. I am working as hard as I can to be the best possible senator I can be," she said. "I am working as hard as I can to be the best the possible senator that I can be and to fight for the things that I promised during my campaign that I would fight for. I am fighting for bank accountability. I am fighting hard to help rebuild America’s middle class."

More links, same thing:

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/warren-i-am-not-running-president

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/us/massachusetts-warren-rules-out-a-run-for-president.html


Now, you go check and see when her term ends, and you'll then come to the conclusion that the math just doesn't work.

[truebluegreen]

2. I thought "this woman" would turn out to be Hillary.

Might do it for Bernie Sanders.

[Thinkingabout]

8. Perhaps the question is can Natalie Tennant change EW's position on coal?

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/natalie-tennant-ill-stand-up-against-elizabeth-warren-on-coal/

They are on different ends of the coal issue, Rove is running his anti anyone ads, etc who is Democrat.