Hundreds of people who worked for President Obama’s election campaigns and the spin-off group Organizing for America have signed an open letter urging Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
“Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy,” they write.
The letter doesn’t mention presumptive Democratic front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, but recalls Mr. Obama’s own underdog status ahead of the 2008 Democratic primary against Mrs. Clinton.
“We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance,” they write. “We worked for him — and against all odds, we won in Iowa. We organized like no campaign had organized before — and won the Democratic primary. We built a movement — and the country elected the first-ever African American president.”
“We know that the improbable is far from impossible,” they write.
The move is the latest in an organized push from some groups to get Ms. Warren to enter the race, though she has thus far said she’s not running.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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