Maryland Rep. Raskin endorses Warren ahead of Iowa caucus

[BlueMTexpat]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479390-maryland-rep-raskin-endorses-warren

I usually post these in the EW group. But since the Dem Primaries Forum is flooded with Biden and Sanders posts, I thought to make at least one post on EW's behalf here today.

FiveThirtyEight still seems to consider Iowa somewhat of a political freefall despite the polls that are posted frequently and copiously here - sometimes several times in the same day.

Time and Iowa voters will tell.

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Raskin said in a video announcement over Twitter that he would be “proud to campaign” for any Democrat in the crowded field, but added his top choice is “emphatically” Warren as he highlighted her fight to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

“Elizabeth Warren has the chance to recapture the moral center of America and make it the political center of our party,” he said.

Raskin touted Warren’s work to create the CFPB in the wake of the 2008 mortgage crisis. He said that some politicians were “content to pass a trillion dollar bailout” of big banks, and others protested without offering a practical way forward.

But Warren, he said, “demanded sweeping accountability and institutional reform in the financial sector and then advanced an idea to protect American consumers, workers, retirees and the besieged middle-class of our country.”
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Sorry DU peeps, but no other candidate has even come close to this political accomplishment in their political lives in the amount of time that Warren has. Not one.

And that's not all that she has to offer. Just sayin'

[delisen]

1. Raskin makes a good point n/t

[BlueMTexpat]

2. I agree, of course!

[BeyondGeography]

3. He's one of my faves

Super smart guy. Early hawk on impeachment too. I’m sure that didn’t hurt their relationship.