VIDEO: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Formally Announces 2020 Presidential Campaign

By  //  February 9, 2019

announcement took place in Lawrence, Massachusetts

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(CBS NEWS) – Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren officially launched her presidential campaign Saturday morning, over a month after she announced an exploratory committee to test the viability of a bid for the White House.

The rally for Warren’s announcement took place in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the site of a 1912 strike by textile workers, making it a symbolic location to launch a campaign largely focused on economic inequality.

Warren was introduced by a few members of Congress who also endorsed her, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who was a student of Warren when she was a professor at Harvard University.

Warren introduced her campaign by telling the story of Lawrence, where laborers — many of whom were immigrants — toiled under terrible working conditions. She framed the 1912 walkout by women textile workers as a blueprint for her campaign, one focused on economic inequality.

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