Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenOvernight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds On The Money: Half of states deplete funds for Trump's 0 unemployment expansion | EU appealing ruling in Apple tax case | House Democrats include more aid for airlines in coronavirus package Warren, Khanna request IG investigation into Pentagon's use of coronavirus funds MORE (D-Mass.) said after clashing with fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg at the last debate that she stopped holding high-dollar fundraisers because she wanted to "do better than that."

"I saw how this system works. And I decided when I got in the presidential race that I wanted to do better than that," she told reporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Saturday night, according to CNN.

"And that's why I just quit doing it. I don't sell access to my time. I don't call high-dollar fundraisers. I'm out there raising money grassroots all across this country, because I want to move this in the right direction, we can't be a country that just keeps getting worse and worse,” she said.

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“I think what's important is what direction are we taking this in, you know," she added. "I don't think the American people are looking for purity. I think they're looking for someone who's trying, trying to make this system better and that's what I'm doing."

Warren made the comments after she knocked a fundraiser for the South Bend, Ind. mayor at a California "wine cave," prompting a report that she held fundraiser for her Senate reelection campaign where donors were given souvenir wine bottles.

"This event, which occurred before the presidential campaign, was held at a large public music venue with multiple locations throughout the country, not an exclusive wine cave," Warren’s deputy communications director, Chris Hayden, said in a statement.

"Their most expensive bottle of wine is $49. As the invite shows, the minimum to get in was $100. It did not require a maxout donation to attend."