Trump doesn't want to face another woman, claims Elizabeth Warren as she swings back at the president's prediction that Biden, Beto, Bernie or Buttigieg will survive to challenge him
- Warren told DailyMail.com as she left a rally stage in Fairfax, Virginia that Trump wants to face a man in 2020
- President said Tuesday that Democratic primary voters will settle on Joe Biden , Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke or Bernie Sanders
- Asked about the his reduction of a historically diverse field to a short-list of four white men, Warren shot back: 'I think that Trump would like it to be that way'
- Warren delivered a stemwinder about corruption in Washington and riffed on Barack Obama's 'You didn't build that' theme, which he stole from her in 2012
- Carnival-like rally at George Mason University included Q&A with three people who won the chance in a raffle
- Warren shook every hand, pateiently spending more than an hour with a giant receiving line
Elizabeth Warren said Thursday night as she left the stage at a Virginia rally that the president is eager to avoid facing a woman in the 2020 presidential race.
Donald Trump predicted Tuesday that Democratic primary voters will ultimately settle on Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke or Bernie Sanders, concluding that 'it's going to be one of these people.'
Asked about the president's reduction of a historically diverse field to a short-list of four white men, Warren shot back to DailyMail.com: 'I think that Trump would like it to be that way.'
Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton solidly in 2016 by a 304-227 Electoral College margin.
The Massachusetts senator stormed into northern Virginia on Thursday to lay out a case that a progressive Democratic senator can upend the 'revolving door' between the Pentagon and defense contractors.
'I've got a plan for that,' she said, but that's just a start.
Elizabeth Warren told DailyMail.com on Thursday that she thinks President Donald Trump would like to face a man in the 2020 election instead of a woman
Trump predicted on Tuesday that one of four white men – Joe Biden , Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke or Bernie Sanders – will be the 2020 Democratic nominee
Warren was introduced by Virginia state Representative Hala Ayala; the pair danced to 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T' after her speech was over
Warren didn't personally go after President Trump on Thursday, and shied away fromattacking her Democratic primary rivals by name
Speaking to a crowd that approached 500 by her closing on a suburban college campus, she boasted that she had 'the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate.'
'Here's the bad news,' she said, sounding out of breath before she found her stride. 'We need the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate.'
In a field of two dozen Democratic presidential contenders, Warren risks getting lost in the campaign noise – and alienating the center of her party.
Her central theme Thursday was a sustained complaint about a 'people versus politicians' schism in America and a need for a major White House to cure '25 years of corruption in Washington.'
But the seventh-year Senator drew sustained applause by reclaiming a speech borrowed by a president whose tenure fell in the middle of that period.
'If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen,' President Barack Obama famously said in a 2012, using a re-election campaign speech to argue that successful Americans lean on the generosity of their tax-paying neighbors.
Warren spoke to a crowd in the range of 500 people,although her campaign claimed it was more than twice as large; a volunteer said he was counting everyone who walked by the welcome table, even those who were headed to a nearby college building that boasted two restaurants
17-year-olds who gave their names as (L-R) Anna, Lindsey and Carmel said they will vote for the first time next year; Carmel said ultra-liberal Warren is her first choice but she would otherwise back the centrist Joe Biden because that's who her parents support
Warren's speech was equal parts grievance and gusto; the senator complained bitterly about Washington corruption and a split between people and politicians
Warren had beaten him to the punch a year earlier, and she returned to the argument on Thursday.
America's rich, she said, become successful by 'using people all of us paid to educate,' driving on 'roads and bridges all of us paid to build' and relying on the protection of
'police and firefighters all of us helped to put out there in the field.'
'You built one of the big fortunes,' she said, in an unspoken jab at President Donald Trump. 'Good for you. But pitch in two cents so everybody else gets to build something real.'
Some Democrats have suggested Trump's reluctance to publish his IRS returns is a bid to hide a habit of minimizing his tax bill.
'Anybody who wants to run for federal office, make them put their tax returns online!' Warren boomed.
Swag spotted at the Warren speech included a button that read: 'F**K TRUMP'
Merchandise on sale at Thursday's event included a t-shirt design that evoked a slasher film
Warren stood for more than an hour to greet every person standing in line to meet her after her rally, offering handshakes and selfies
Her policy compote included already well-known themes: 'more power' for labor unions, a 'wealth tax' and student loan forgiveness for 95 per cent of people with outstanding college loans.
'It's not nibbles around the edge,' she said. 'If we want to make change we have to make big systemic change in this country. And I've got a plan for that.'
Although Warren didn't directly attack the president on Thursday night, her crowd carried an unmistakable anti-Trump vibe to the event
A Washington, D.C. man told DailyMail.com that the prospect of making part of his student loan debt vanish was the biggest reason he supports Warren.
'I have a ton of student loans,' he said, 'By the time I graduate law school, it'll be over $300,000.'
Warren's plan, he said, would shave $50,000 off the total.
Wearing a t-shirt that read 'Misogyny is terrorism,' Link said he believes a raft of recent anti-abortion laws are 'a form of terrorism that really hurts the entire population.'
Shelly Reed, a 60-ish supporter, said Thursday in Fairfax that if Warren were to drop out, she would support another female or a black man.
'A woman won the popular vote last time,' she told DailyMail.com, referring to Hillary Clinton, 'and I can’t imagine that we lost ground on that.'
'I don’t know as much about the other women running,' Reed said. 'But I’m interested in Kamala Harris. I’m interested in Amy Klobuchar.'
AJ Link, a Washington, D.C. man who came to Virginia to hear Warren speak, said he hopes her student loan forgiveness plan will knock $50,000 off his college debts
Warren's campain theme is 'Dream Big, Fight Hard,' a call-and-response that she shared with her audience, revival-tent style
Warren fans stood in the back with campaign signs on Thursday night to distract attention from an anti-abortion sign erected behind a barricade; '1/1024 per cent' is a reference to the fraction of her genome believed to be American Indian despite her longtime insistence that she had Cherokee heritage
She’s also 'been keeping track of Cory Booker,' she hedged. 'I haven’t seen a middle-aged white male candidate who is bringing anything new to the race.'
Warren turns 70 next month. But her rally evoked a more youthful and friendly carnival atmosphere of a mid-2015 Hillary Clinton event.
She joked about being the product of an unexpected pregnancy, declaring: 'Let's hear it for late-in-life babies! My mother always called me "The surprise".'
A Democratic Virginia state legislator drew three raffle numbers on stage – 'Raise your hand and say PERSIST if you have 1676!' – offering winners the chance to ask the candidate a question.
The two politicians later danced to Aretha Franklin's 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T.'
Warren called out: 'Dream big!' The faithful responded: 'Fight Hard!' – revival-tent-style.
Warren called out: 'Dream big!' The faithful responded: 'Fight Hard!' revival-tent-style
Warren returned to a theme that got President Barack Obama into trouble in a 2012 speech: the idea, which he stole from her in the first place, that successful Americans couldn't possibly have earned their successes without relying on other taxpayers to smooth the way
But the meat in the sandwich on a George Mason University lawn was equal parts grievance and gusto.
Pentagon officials, she insisted, should be banned from lobbying for defense contractors for a period of years.
Defense Secretary nominee Patrick Shanahan, she vented, has 'absolutely zero military experience, absolutely zero foreign policy experience,' and a goal of 'improving the profitability of Boeing.'
Campaigns in the early primary going jockey for position both on messaging and the public's perception of their levels of support.
Warren press aide Alexis Krieg insisted Thursday night that 'more than 1,000' people had attended the rally, pointing to a volunteer who was tapping an iPhone screen to arrive at a total.
The volunteer, one of 60 in Thursday's crowd, declined to give his name but gestured to a Panda Express, an Einstein Brothers bagel shop and a pizza carryout about 50 yards away on the ground floor of a university building.
Warren's staff helped her avoid the press after her rally by backing a small SUV over a concrete curb and directly in front of a door so she could escape without fielding questions
Warren took quesitons from three members of her audience chosen in a raffle
'I'm just counting people that pass this table,' he said, grinning on a warm near-summer's evening hours after George Mason's graduation ceremony.
However many came to hear their heroine, she stayed to shake every hand, a patient process that took more than an hour. A few wore commencement gowns.
But Warren wasn't eager to take questions from the press, entertaining none before or after the event.
Her staff backed a Ford SUV over a concrete curb in order to get it closer to a building exit door, allowing her to avoid the press before she was driven away.
She ignored shouted questions, mostly about Donald Trump and Bill de Blasio, the New York City mayor who promises to challenge her for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party's left edge.
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