Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren was born in 1949 to a middle class family in Oklahoma. She spent most of her early life in Oklahoma until she got married and moved down to Houston. Once there she enrolled at the University of Houston and graduated with degree in pathology and audiology. Then they moved go New Jersey where the Warrens had their first child. During this time Elizabeth started going to law school at Rutgers University. While at law school she became pregnant with her second child, yet she finished law school and passed the bar during this pregnancy.

During the next 30 years, Warren taught bankruptcy and middle class personal finance law classes in several different colleges including Harvard. In 1995 she started worked in a advisory role to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission Board and served in this role till 2005. in In 2011 She decided to run for senate as the Democratic Nominee and won a narrow race later on in 2012. Many expected her to run for president in 2016, but instead she threw her support behind Hillary Clinton. She won her senate race again in 2018 and is now running for president.

During her time as a Senator it was discovered that she had claimed Native American ancestry throughout most of her life and identified herself as a Cherokee. She used this on forms to get into law school as well as applications to work at universities. However, it was shown that her claims to ancestry were simply not true. Warren claimed that she had been told this information by her family while her political opponents say she fabricated it to help her get ahead in her academic and political life. in 2019 she issued an apology to the Cherokee Nation apologizing for causing possible confusion or harm to them. Warren also said “I am not a citizen of a tribe. Tribal citizenship and ancestry are very different and I respect that difference. So she no longer claims to be a part of the Cherokee Nation but still claims to have native american ancestry. So I will let you decide what is true on that.

Similar to my post on Biden, I will post a link to a politico article that provides a list of her stances on political issues. Needless to say, I do not agree with most of her stances, yet it is good to know where she stands in her beliefs.

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/elizabeth-warren/

Now will Warren beat Trump? I am not so sure. I think she presents a solid though very liberal option for the Democratic Party. But in many ways, she is simply a rerun of Hillary Clinton. She has years of experience and the ability to gather a wide variety of supporters. However, she does not have the ground support that even Hillary had at this point. So yes, I think she is the Democrats third best option to beat Trump. I just do not think she will manage to do it. But let me know what you think.