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(85,998 posts)
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 11:38 AM Feb 2019

Elizabeth Warren: "Driving up to Lawrence!" (formal presidential announcement - live vid)

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Elizabeth Warren @ewarren 49s49 seconds ago
Driving up to Lawrence! Me and my guys are in here, and my whole family is in a car behind us. Tune in live to join us in less than an hour.




Los Angeles Times @latimes 14h14 hours ago
Columnist @hiltzikm: “The symbolism is unmistakable.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has scheduled the formal announcement of her presidential candidacy in Lawrence, Mass, the site of one of the most important — and successful — strikes in U.S. labor history.
https://t.co/ZHsLoxGIWv


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Elizabeth Warren: "Driving up to Lawrence!" (formal presidential announcement - live vid) (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2019 OP
Joe Kennedy backstage bigtree Feb 2019 #1
kick bigtree Feb 2019 #2
Ed Markey bigtree Feb 2019 #3
Joe Kennedy introducing Elizabeth Warren bigtree Feb 2019 #4
Watching. Thanks for the link. n/t demmiblue Feb 2019 #5
I wonder if this means Sanders won't run. Garrett78 Feb 2019 #6
Dolly... excellent intro song! demmiblue Feb 2019 #7
this is a classic address bigtree Feb 2019 #8
I feel inspired! demmiblue Feb 2019 #10
event over bigtree Feb 2019 #9
kick bigtree Feb 2019 #11

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
8. this is a classic address
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 01:18 PM
Feb 2019

...one for the history books, maybe.

Very striking image, plainspoken woman with an economic message which strikes to the hearts of most Americans wondering when they'll ever get ahead financially.

She's really good at this. Very inspiring. (Hope folks are listening in)


demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
10. I feel inspired!
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 01:52 PM
Feb 2019

The part about daycare connects with a lot of families, especially single parents (lol... three bags of M&M's and five days later).

As a woman, I felt a great sense of pride by how she integrated the badass women textile workers throughout the speech.

It was a wonderful and inclusive economic message about the power of coming together and bringing about change for the vast majority of Americans (many of which never had a chance at all due to a rigged system).

That one person in the audience, though.

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