Elizabeth Warren breaks through crowded 2020 field – with a plan
CNNCNN — For five months now, Elizabeth Warren has bounced around the country pitching ambitious ideas – typically anchored by well-timed policy rollouts – to achieve the “big, structural change” at the core of her pitch to Democratic primary voters. During her Thursday morning appearance on “The View,” an audience member held up a small flag reading, “Warren has a plan for that.” She appeared on Time magazine’s cover with those words – “I have a plan for that” – in headline print alongside her face, which looked on heroically to some distant horizon. “If all of America had an Aunt Bee, we’d be in a different place, but childcare has gotten even harder, and holds women some men back from getting an education, and getting into the workforce and taking a more demanding job.” At that, Warren pivoted back to her proposal, and directed viewers to her website, which now has a feature that allows people to calculate – based on where they live, their income and how many kids they have, or plan on having – just how much they stand to save if her plan became law. “Things have looked up in the second quarter,” the Democrat said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss fundraising goals, who added that fundraising remains one of Warren’s biggest hurdles.