Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign
Campaign	2020 United States presidential election
Candidate	Elizabeth Warren U. S. Senator from Massachusetts (2013-present)
Affiliation	Democratic Party
Announced	February 9, 2019
Suspended	March 5, 2020

In February 2019, Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, announced she was running for president. She wanted to become the President of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election. She was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination.

Elizabeth Warren's Presidential Campaign

Elizabeth Warren is a well-known politician from Massachusetts. She has been a senator since 2013. In late 2018, she began exploring the idea of running for president.

Starting the Campaign

On December 31, 2018, Senator Warren announced she was forming an exploratory committee. This is a special group that helps a person decide if they should run for president. It lets them start raising money and planning. She was one of the first major Democratic politicians to do this for the 2020 election. She shared her plans in a video on December 30, 2018.

What She Wanted to Do

In her announcement video, Elizabeth Warren talked about her main ideas. She said that "America's middle class is under attack." This meant she believed that regular working families were facing many challenges. Her plan focused on helping these families and making the economy fairer for everyone. This type of plan is often called a populist economic agenda.

Campaign Ends

After campaigning for over a year, Elizabeth Warren decided to stop her presidential campaign. This happened on March 5, 2020. She had not won any of the early primary elections. Also, her support in polls was not very high. A primary election is how a political party chooses its best candidate.

After ending her own campaign, Senator Warren decided to support another candidate. On April 15, 2020, she announced her support for Joe Biden. He later became the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

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  Sign at the Women's March in Portland, 2017, held the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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  Warren speaking at the Holyoke, Massachusetts town hall meeting where she acknowledged she would consider running for president

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  Warren speaking at the 2019 Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame Celebration in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on June 9

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  Warren delivering her announcement address

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  Warren pinky promises with a young girl at a campaign event

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  A crowd of an estimated 20,000 people attended Warren's September 16, 2019 rally in New York City's Washington Square Park