MoveOn.org announces bid to draft Warren

MoveOn.org is urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren to enter the presidential race.

The liberal group plans to spend $1 million in a campaign to push the Massachusetts Democrat to run in the 2016 election, according to a report Tuesday in The New York Times.


MoveOn.org’s director, Ilya Sheyman, told the Times that the draft-Warren campaign would involve opening offices in Iowa and New Hampshire and starting a Run Warren Run website where backers can sign a petition, urging her to jump into the race for the White House.

“We want to demonstrate to Senator Warren that there’s a groundswell of grass-roots energy nationally and in key states and to demonstrate there’s a path for her,” Sheyman said. “Voters are looking for bold solutions about how you fix a rigged system in which middle- and working-class families are falling behind.”

Sheyman told Warren’s office just last week about the impending effort, although her staff insists the senator is not running for president.