Warren taps all-woman lineup to chair U.S. presidential campaign
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[November 23, 2019]
By Amanda Becker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator
Elizabeth Warren announced on Friday that her presidential campaign will
be chaired by a diverse group of congresswomen elected in 2018 in a
record-breaking wave of women who helped Democrats retake the U.S. House
of Representatives.
Presidential campaign chairs often play public-facing roles interacting
with voters. Warren chose three women seen as rising stars in the
Democratic Party with national profiles.
Representative Deb Haaland from New Mexico is one of the first two
Native American women to serve in the U.S. Congress. Representative
Katie Porter, a former student of Warren's at Harvard Law School, won a
historically Republican district in California. Representative Ayanna
Pressley is the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in
Congress.
They all previously endorsed Warren and some have already attended
campaign events, including Pressley this week in Atlanta.
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"Elizabeth Warren is the candidate we need to beat Donald Trump in 2020,
root out corruption in 2021 and make big structural change to bring
relief to working families all across the country," Porter said in a
statement.
Haaland has worked with Warren on proposals for universal childcare and
to improve military housing. She defended Warren after an early
political misstep, when the Massachusetts senator last year heeded
President Donald Trump's call to take a DNA test to prove her Native
American ancestry and it showed she had at least one Native American
ancestor many generations ago.
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Some Native American leaders criticized Warren for using a DNA test
to lay claim to even a vague connection to a tribal nation, saying
culture and sovereignty were just as important as blood, and the
tests did not confer the rights of tribal citizenship.
Haaland said on Friday that both she and Warren "come from humble
beginnings" and "understand what it means to live
paycheck-to-paycheck, struggling to make ends meet."
Pressley, who praised Warren for "working to dismantle structural
racism," could help the candidate make inroads with black voters who
have thus far backed former Vice President Joe Biden in large
numbers.
Reuters/Ipsos polling in October and November showed Biden with the
support of 32% of Democratic, independent and unaffiliated black
voters. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont had 16% support and
Warren had 9% support from the same group.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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