She isn’t going anyplace…..
In a move that may surprise some ambitious Massachusetts Democrats, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says that she’s going to run for reelection in 2024.
“Yep,” the 71-year-old said simply in a POLITICO interview Friday, when asked if she planned to make the run.
That answer came as some Massachusetts Democrats have been gaming out a competitive primary in a few years that could include figures like Rep. Ayanna Pressley and former Rep. Joe Kennedy III. Two well-connected Bay State Democrats said in interviews that they still wonder if Warren might change her mind in the end.
After all, Warren did spend the past two years trying to leave the Senate: the presidential campaign, her auditioning to be vice president, and then the push to be Biden’s Treasury Secretary.
The failure of those recent efforts seems to weigh heavily on Warren these days, who addresses some of her disappointments in her new book “Persist.”
The book is Warren’s attempt to grapple with a difficult couple of years, while defending some of the positions put forth during her presidential campaign. The book has a confessional tone, and it comes at a time when many people in the Democratic Party — including some Warren supporters — believe she’s at a political crossroads.
“In 2012, I was new to politics. In 2020, I was new to losing,” she writes in the book….
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Glad to see it. She’s a very good Senator.
Some people’s talents, skills and knowledge are better used in the Senate than in an (appointed or elected) executive position.
Think of Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, Hubert Humphrey, John McCain or Orrin Hatch.
I think the same of Prof. Warren.
Ed Markey just got re-elected to a full term in the Senate, so his seat (to the frustration of many others’ ambitions) won’t be up until 2026/27.
Yup on Warren’s soap box being better in the Senate….
Some of those hungry for her seat have to be not happy….
Who cares if these pols are “happy” or not? They are free to run against Warren in a primary if they want.
i agree Scott.
Warren is an effective story teller and spokesperson for Democratic policies.