BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren, the progressive candidate who ran against corruption and released more than 50 policy proposals during her campaign, has suspended her presidential bid.
Warren’s campaign revolved around the single issue of rooting out corruption. It was an issue that brought Warren into politics in the first place, after decades researching why American families went bankrupt and her introduction to Washington as creator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
with one policy proposal after another, banking on the prospect that there were more voters who would be mobilized by her argument than there were rich people who would disagree. Warren’s campaign invested heavily in ground-game around the country, building the largest staff in Iowa and extending staff into Super Tuesday states well before the early states voted. In turn, her fundraising numbers swelled over the summer, a reflection of grassroots support.about a month before the Iowa caucuses — a reflection of dwindling support from voters. She also lost fundraising steam just before the caucuses, coming in $3.5 million short of her previous quarters’ haul.
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