Elizabeth Warren Is Already Sitting On A Mountain Of 2020 Campaign Cash

Elizabeth Warren is definitely running in 2020.

While we all think she’s an unelectable lying HAG… the Dems love her. So we can’t underestimate the power of Fauxcahontas.

Warren positions for potential 2020 run https://t.co/vGD1aZr6Zr via @gdebenedetti pic.twitter.com/lplligHmad

— POLITICO (@politico) January 2, 2018

Real Question: What’s dangling off her phone? Is that a dream catcher?

Anyway…According to the story above:

Elizabeth Warren has spent the past year making a series of below-the-radar moves that would put her in prime position to run for president in 2020 if she decides to.

The liberal icon and Republican bete noire has amassed more money in her campaign war chest than nearly any senator in modern history, groomed political connections with Democrats who’ve been skeptical of her in the past, and worked to bolster her bipartisan and foreign policy bona fides.

It’s part of a conscious break from the heads-down posture that Warren purposefully maintained during the first five years of her Senate career, a wide range of Democrats close to the Massachusetts senator and her tight-knit political operation told POLITICO. And it’s representative of Warren’s tricky navigation between the wishes of advocates who want her cutting a clear path to 2020, and supporters who think her best bet is to run up the score in her reelection race this year.

The balancing act is evident everywhere, as Warren takes steps she never did when activists were pressuring her to jump into the 2016 presidential race.

Warren is sitting on more campaign cash — $12.8 million — than nearly any other incumbent senator ever has at this point in an election cycle, despite what’s expected to be an easy reelection. But she also held 17 town hall events back home in Massachusetts last year.

DING DING DING…. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, she’s running for president.

She’s even got a team trying to figure out what to do about the “pretending to be a Native American” thing…

And Warren has stocked her political staff with a research team directed to scour her past for political vulnerabilities — an undertaking that appears aimed at a national bid. But the group of five aides is also monitoring a gaggle of potential Republican reelection opponents in Massachusetts, where hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, a top backer of President Donald Trump, has funded a super PAC assailing her.

“Big money is already running attack ads against her, and she is and should be taking them very seriously. She won the first time with a formidable grass-roots organization, and she should be doing the same thing again,” said former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988, who keeps in touch with Warren. “There will be plenty of time after that to think about the national scene.”

Yet the result of all her subtly intensifying prep is that one year after Trump’s win, she is firmly in the top tier of potential Democratic presidential contenders, one of three figures — with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden — whom all other hopefuls must consider carefully before launching their own bids.

Hmm… so President Warren, huh?

Surely she’s already envisioning her Oval Office remodel…

I’d love to see her run. This will be a veeeeery interesting race.