Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the law professor who wants to eliminate student debt. Her reputation as a defender of consumers was only momentarily overshadowed by her claims to distant Native American ancestry, her defense of Israeli strikes on Gaza, or her past as an ‘ice-cold Republican.’

So how did a woman who stayed in Reagan’s party throughout the AIDS and crack epidemics become every executive’s worst nightmare? (via Who Is?, 🗣Julia Shiplett)
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In US news and current events today, meet Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. Senator, a CEO’s worst nightmare, and a 2020 democratic presidential candidate, who has a very real chance of becoming the nation’s first ever female president.

As a professor in the 80s, she was traveling the country with a photocopier, working on a big study examining bankruptcy: who files for it and why it happens. She set out to prove that people were robbing the system.

In 1992, she became a law professor at Harvard and later got a call from Washington. One of her old high school debate buddies was hired by the Clinton administration to study the country’s bankruptcy laws, and he decided to call Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren. She said, “We hadn’t seen each other in the intervening decades, but 14-year-old boys seem to remember 15-year-old girls who once beat them in [debate] tournament play.''

She went to bat for the American people against both the Bush and Obama administrations, questioning them about why the government was more interested in bailing out the banks than helping homeowners facing foreclosure.

Warren won a Senate seat in 2012, representing Massachusetts, where she’s doggedly fought for the American people ever since.

Warren has been one of the loudest voices in the Senate holding the rich accountable, but she has also done some things during her past that many are critical of. For example, in 1986 Warren claimed she was “American Indian” when she filled out paperwork for the State Bar of Texas. In 2019 Warren released DNA results showing she had a Native American ancestor 6 to 10 generations ago. Critics argue the distant ancestors make her unable to claim the identity. Warren apologized. And in 2017, she voted to raise the defense budget to $700 billion, far surpassing the $54 billion increase requested by Trump. She championed Israel’s war on Gaza and supported sanctions against Venezuela. But, all in all, she’s largely seen as one of the most progressive U.S. senators America has ever seen.

On February 9, 2019, Warren formally announced her bid for the presidency. Throughout the debates, Warren was frequently seen side by side with Senator Bernie Sanders as they both bashed private insurance companies, and the rich, and sometimes Joe Biden. The two candidates are often compared to one another, and of course they overlap, but denying there are differences between them is inaccurate. When Donald Trump — at the State of the Union — said that America would never be a socialist country, Warren stood up and applauded.

Warren’s recent shift of shooing big money away during the primaries has critics fearful that this is just a strategic move and not a deeply held belief. They argue she’s trying to keep up with Bernie Sanders and appease the immense democratic socialist shift in the party before taking big money again in the general to compete with Trump. In fact, Warren confirmed this fear.

It’s unclear what an ever evolving Elizabeth Warren would look like in the general election. But if she gets the chance, this one time Harvard professor with tons of government experience — and a finger on the pulse of the political landscape — might just beat a former steak salesman.

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