Eyeing 2020, Elizabeth Warren Traveling To NH

MANCHESTER, NH — Elizabeth Warren, who recently launched a presidential exploratory committee, appears to be ramping up toward an official bid for 2020. The Massachusetts senator will travel to New Hampshire Saturday for an "organizing event" rally at Manchester Community College. She will then appear at a Concord house party.

Warren will return to New Hampshire Feb. 22 for the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 60th McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner. Granite State Democrats will toast their wins in the November midterms, as they retook control of the House, Senate and Executive Council.

"Senator Warren has long been an ardent supporter of New Hampshire Democrats," New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley said in a statement. "Senator Warren's significant support in 2018 helped New Hampshire Democrats take back control of the Executive Council, State Senate, and State House and keep our federal delegation blue in November."

Warren, 69, was re-elected to a second term in November. She launched her presidential exploratory committee in December.

"I've spent my career standing up to big banks and powerful corporations," Warren said in announcing the committee. "I don't have binders full of bankers and CEOs to call for ginormous checks to launch this committee."

She added, "No matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing. To be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules and take care of the people we love. That's what I'm fighting for and that's why today I'm launching an exploratory committee for president."

Warren is the highest-profile Democrat to launch an exploratory committee, which allows a potential candidate to begin raising campaign funds. She has $12.5 million left from her 2018 re-election campaign, according to The Associated Press.

Warren, a liberal darling, made a name for herself taking hard stances against large corporations — often with a tongue-lashing. She was a key part of the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2007, an agency abhorred by conservatives that been muted by the Trump administration.

Warren has had a public, nasty rivalry with President Trump, who has called her "Pocahontas" on many occasions, referring to her claims of Native American ancestry. A DNA analysis confirmed Warren's claims, but it opened her up to further attacks from both sides of the political aisle.

Warren, an Oklahoma native, was a Harvard law professor before becoming senator in 2012 with a victory over Scott Brown. She easily fended off Geoff Diehl in the 2018 midterms.

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Mike Carraggi, Patch National Staff, contributed to this report

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