Elizabeth Warrens Nabs Big Endorsement Ahead of Iowa Caucuses

The Des Moines Register is the largest daily newspaper in Iowa-- and one week ahead of the Iowa caucuses, it has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president.

"The senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts is not the radical some perceive her to be. She was a registered Republican until 1996. She is a capitalist. “I love what markets can do,” she said. “They are what make us rich, they are what create opportunity.”  But she wants fair markets, with rules and accountability. She wants a government that works for people, not one corrupted by cash."

"She believes government should actively work to prevent and respond to abusive practices that jeopardize individuals and the country’s economy.   Warren doesn’t measure the health of the economy by looking at the stock market or an unemployment rate that doesn’t count the longtime jobless or chronically underemployed. She measures it by how working families are doing. Many are not doing well, and Warren seeks major reforms to help them."

"Warren’s competence, respect for others and status as the nation’s first female president would be a fitting response to the ignorance, sexism and xenophobia of the Trump Oval Office.  She is a thinker, a policy wonk and a hard worker. She remembers her own family’s struggles to make ends meet and her own desperation as a working mother needing child care.  She cares about people, and she will use her seemingly endless energy and passion to fight for them.   At this moment, when the very fabric of American life is at stake, Elizabeth Warren is the president this nation needs."