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TexasTowelie

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Fri Mar 17, 2017, 10:18 PM Mar 2017

Sen. Warren, in Worcester, comes out swinging against GOP [View all]

WORCESTER - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was in fighting form Thursday as she met with Massachusetts newspaper reporters and editors at the Telegram & Gazette.

The progressive champion sounded many of the populist themes that have won her an enthusiastic following on the liberal-left of the Democratic Party, leading some to regard her as a possible standard-bearer against Republican President Donald Trump in 2020.

"I want to be the America that believes in the future," Ms. Warren said. "But that's not where the Republicans want to go. Every one of their proposals is about helping people who've already made it, and making everyone else pay for it."

Ms. Warren was here for a roundtable with journalists from Massachusetts' mid-size "gateway" cities such as Springfield, Fall River and Worcester. She later took center stage at a town hall-style meeting at the Worcester Public Library that drew hundreds of supporters.

Read more: http://www.telegram.com/news/20170316/sen-warren-in-worcester-comes-out-swinging-against-gop

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