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SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a rock-star reception during a standing-room-only campaign rally here Monday, as hundreds of liberal activists cheered her broadsides against corporate interests and voiced hopes that her presence might shift the political winds in an increasingly Republican state.
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a rock-star reception during a standing-room-only campaign rally here Monday, as hundreds of liberal activists cheered her broadsides against corporate interests and voiced hopes that her presence might shift the political winds in an increasingly Republican state.
The rally on behalf of Senate candidate Natalie Tennant was the latest in a string of recent Warren appearances in red and blue states alike, where Democratic base voters have embraced her fiery message as an envoy to working-class voters frustrated with both Wall Street and the Obama administration.
"Our job is to fight for the families of America," Warren said, speaking to a packed ballroom at the Clarion Hotel in West Virginia's eastern panhandle. "Stitch up the tax loopholes so that millionaires and billionaires pay at the same tax rate as the people in this room."
Read the full article at the Washignton Post.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a rock-star reception during a standing-room-only campaign rally here Monday, as hundreds of liberal activists cheered her broadsides against corporate interests and voiced hopes that her presence might shift the political winds in an increasingly Republican state.
The rally on behalf of Senate candidate Natalie Tennant was the latest in a string of recent Warren appearances in red and blue states alike, where Democratic base voters have embraced her fiery message as an envoy to working-class voters frustrated with both Wall Street and the Obama administration.
"Our job is to fight for the families of America," Warren said, speaking to a packed ballroom at the Clarion Hotel in West Virginia's eastern panhandle. "Stitch up the tax loopholes so that millionaires and billionaires pay at the same tax rate as the people in this room."
Read the full article at the Washignton Post.
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a rock-star reception during a standing-room-only campaign rally here Monday, as hundreds of liberal activists cheered her broadsides against corporate interests and voiced hopes that her presence might shift the political winds in an increasingly Republican state.
The rally on behalf of Senate candidate Natalie Tennant was the latest in a string of recent Warren appearances in red and blue states alike, where Democratic base voters have embraced her fiery message as an envoy to working-class voters frustrated with both Wall Street and the Obama administration.
"Our job is to fight for the families of America," Warren said, speaking to a packed ballroom at the Clarion Hotel in West Virginia's eastern panhandle. "Stitch up the tax loopholes so that millionaires and billionaires pay at the same tax rate as the people in this room."
Read the full article at the Washignton Post.