US Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a liberal favorite being pushed for 2016, shifted the spotlight back to Hillary Clinton on Sunday and insisted that the former first lady should run again.
The Massachusetts democrat, out promoting her economic populist book “Fighting Chance,” denied she’s planning any kind of White House run.
But when ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos asked, point blank, if she’s supporting Clinton in 2016, Warren stopped inches short of an endorsement.
“You know, all of the women — Democratic women, I should say, of the Senate — urged Hillary Clinton to run, and I hope she does,” Warren said. “Hillary, Hillary is terrific.”
Stephanopoulos also pressed Warren about her past ties to the GOP and she admitted to being a registered Republican as recently as 1994.
“I was originally an independent. I was with the GOP for a while because I really thought that it was a party that was principled in its conservative approach to economics and to markets and I feel like the GOP party just left that,” Warren said.
“That they moved to a party that said, ‘No, it’s not about a level-playing field, it’s now about a field that has gotten tilted,’ and they really stood up for the big financial institutions when the big financial institutions are just hammering middle-class American families. You know, I just feel like that’s a party that moved way, way away.”