NYT: Elizabeth Warren's New Year's Message: 'Imagine' a Better America

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Elizabeth Warren’s New Year’s Message: ‘Imagine’ a Better America

Ms. Warren delivered a major speech exactly a year after she entered the presidential race, reiterating her case against corruption but also seeking a more uplifting tone heading into 2020

BOSTON — Marking a year since she began her campaign for president, and seeking to frame the final five-week sprint to Iowa, where much of her candidacy hinges, Senator Elizabeth Warren urged her supporters to “imagine that something better lies on the other side of the chaos and ugliness of the last three years” in a major speech on Tuesday.

Ms. Warren, who surged to the front of the Democratic field in early fall but has since receded, warned her party against “thinking small” in 2020 as she pitched her sweeping agenda. “Americans do big things,” she said. “That’s who we are.”

(snip) She cast the 2020 campaign as “our chance to rewrite the rules of power in our country.”

“The billionaires, the corporate executives and their favorite presidential candidates have one clear goal: to convince you that everything you imagine is impossible,” she said, sharpening her contrast with Democratic rivals like former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., who have aggressively courted large contributors.

“You better believe the big donors know which candidates for president are on their side,” she added, offering something of a rebuttal to Mr. Buttigieg, who has criticized Ms. Warren for her pursuit of such donors before she began her presidential campaign. Their goal, she said, was “to convince you that reform is hopeless — to convince you that because no one can be pure, it’s pointless to try to make anything better.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-2020.html