Warren says she will run for reelection in 2024 - POLITICO

The 71-year-old senator, whose new book addresses the disappointment of her failed presidential campaign, says she sees a future in the Senate.

Elizabeth Warren says that she’s going to run for reelection in 2024.

Elizabeth Warren says that she’s going to run for reelection in 2024.

“Yep,” the 71-year-old said simply in a POLITICO interview Friday, when asked if she planned to make the run.

The book has a confessional tone, and it comes at a time when many people in the Democratic Party — including some Warren supporters — believe she’s at a political crossroads.

In 2020, I was new to losing,” she writes in the book.

She makes self-deprecating references to her defeat at multiple points in the book: “I didn’t win the presidency, of course”; “Damn, I’d lost”; “And no, I didn’t win”; “I hadn’t won my fight”; “I’d laid out my plans and fought as hard as I knew how.

I know that,” she said in the interview via Zoom, wearing a light-brown zip-up hoodie.

She says that both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden had bases of loyal supporters that made it hard for any other candidate to break through in the race.

“Bernie and I are friends and we’re doing great,” Warren said in her POLITICO interview, while declining to elaborate.

Tensions between the two flared up in Iowa just weeks before last year’s caucuses when Warren confronted Sanders after a debate about his denial of her claim that he told her he didn’t believe a woman could defeat Donald Trump.

In September 2019, when Warren was at her peak in the polls, she called Sanders personally and told him that she felt his people, staffers included, were being increasingly toxic and attacking her.

“I'm not going there, I'm just not looking back,” Warren said in her POLITICO interview, when asked about the call.

Warren writes — with the passive voice — that “it leaked that Bernie had told me that a woman couldn’t win.”.

"It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn't win," he said.

On the creation of the $14 million Super PAC that kept her afloat after Sanders outpaced her in the initial contests, Warren writes that “a stunningly generous woman put $14 million into a super PAC.” After running a campaign attacking the influence of the wealthy and powerful in politics, Warren justifies the existence of the Super PAC on the grounds that other candidates had outside help too or were self-funding.

Former Sanders officials remain angry that Warren didn’t endorse Sanders after she dropped out, because of their shared progressive values.

In the interview, Warren explains Biden’s evolution as him “meeting the moment.”

“I often wondered why other candidates didn’t have detailed plans for the future,” she writes in her book

Pressed on whether she thinks detailed plans are bad politics, she said in the interview: “I don't think so.”