Elizabeth Warren Seeks to Revive Senate Campaign [View all]
Source: NY Times
After a month of floundering, Elizabeth Warren, the embattled Senate candidate in Massachusetts, gave a feisty speech here on Saturday as she sought the endorsement of the state Democratic Party in the race against Senator Scott P. Brown in November.
“It’s a long way from Ted Kennedy to Scott Brown,” Ms. Warren said as she addressed the roughly 3,500 delegates to the state convention and invoked the name of the lionized Democrat whose death in 2009 led to the special election in which Mr. Brown won the seat.
She also dismissed the controversy in which her campaign has been mired for more than a month — whether she unfairly claimed American Indian ancestry to advance her academic career.
“If that’s all you’ve got, Scott Brown, I’m ready,” she declared to cheers. “And let me be clear. I am not backing down. I didn’t get in this race to fold up the first time I got punched.”
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