Senator Elizabeth Warren has officially announced her 2020 presidential campaign.
The 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat officially launched her campaign at a rally on Saturday in Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of New England's poorest and most heavily Latino communities.
'I am a candidate for president of the United States of America,' she told the cheering crowd on a blustery day where the wind chill hit 19 degrees.
Warren struck a populist note in her speech, highlighting her humble origins as the daughter of a janitor, and lashed out at a 'rigged' system that favors big banks and the elite.
She proposed an 'ultra millionaires tax' on the super wealthy and twice praised the Green New Deal, an ambitious environmental, economic and social master-plan rolled out this week by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.
Warren also lashed out at President Donald Trump, saying: 'The rich and the powerful use fear to divide us. We're done with that. Bigotry has no place in the Oval Office.'
Senator Elizabeth Warren waves at the crowd ahead of a campaign rally on Friday, where she announced her candidacy for president in the 20202 race
Warren proposed an 'ultra millionaires tax' on the super wealthy and twice praised the Green New Deal, an ambitious environmental, economic and social master-plan
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announces her candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at Everett Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Despite the cold weather, a crowd turned up at the former textile mill for Warren
The former law school professor began her speech with a lecture on the history of the rally's location, Everett Mill, where the Industrial Workers of the World in 1912 organized a strike of female workers whose pay was cut corresponding to a new law shortening the work week of women.
Warren praised the mostly immigrant women for winning a pay raise and inspiring new worker-protection legislation.
'They stuck together and they won,' Warren said. She said that the history lesson was a 'story about our power when we fight together' and vowed that the upcoming election would be 'the fight of our lives.'
She hopes her populist stance will distinguish her in the field and help her move past the controversy surrounding her past claims to Native American heritage, an embarrassment Warren did not mention in her speech.
Warren concluded her speech to the walk-off song Respect, by Aretha Franklin.
Warren began her speech with a lecture on the 1912 Bread and Roses strike. Above Massachusetts militiamen (left) are seen facing off with workers (right) during the strike
The former law professor tutored the crowd on the history of the mill town of Lawrence
Warren supporters look on during her event announcing her official bid for President
Warren greets supporters after announcing her official bid for President on Friday
Rep. Joe Kennedy III, a Massachusetts Democrat and grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, introduced Warren at the rally and endorsed her run.
Warren will battle at least five fellow senators for the nomination and chance to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.
On Wednesday, Warren repeatedly apologized for claiming on a 1986 bar registration form to be 'American Indian'.
A year later, she had jumped from teaching law at the University of Texas to working as a full professor in the Ivy League, first at the University of Pennsylvania and then Harvard.
Warren's prior publication of DNA test results revealed her share of Native American heritage to be little as 1/1,024.
In a statement, President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, reacted to Warren's announcement with disdain.
'Elizabeth Warren has already been exposed as a fraud by the Native Americans she impersonated and disrespected to advance her professional career, and the people of Massachusetts she deceived to get elected,' Parscale said in a statement.
'The American people will reject her dishonest campaign and socialist ideas like the Green New Deal, that will raise taxes, kill jobs and crush American's middle class,' he added.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (second from left) arrives with her husband Bruce Mann to Everett Mills ahead of her campaign announcement on Saturday
Warren peeks out the window at the crowd for her campaign rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Warren looks out of the window with some of her grandchildren prior to her speech
Warren's fellow candidate for the Democrat nomination, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. leaped to her defense, calling the Trump campaign's attack 'irresponsible' and 'unpresidential.'
Gillibrand told reporters in South Carolina that Warren 'has been an extraordinary public servant' who 'will keep fighting for Americans.'
The New York lawmaker says that how Trump 'treats women, particularly women of color, is outrageous.'
The faded mill city of Lawrence, 30 miles north of Warren's tony Cambridge home, was once a center of America's textile industry and has a long history of welcoming immigrants. It's now 80 percent Latino.
But Trump and other Republicans have criticized the city for being a hub for the heroin trade. They've also taken aim at its sanctuary city policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration agencies.
In a video released before the event, Warren cited Lawrence's 'history of working people coming together to make change, where the fight was hard, the battle was uphill, and where a group of women led the charge for all of us.'
Warren was scheduled to later visit New Hampshire, home to the nation's first primary, where Warren could have an advantage as a neighboring-state resident with high name recognition.
She intended to spend Sunday in Iowa, where the leadoff caucuses will be the first test of candidates' viability.
Warren was the first high-profile Democrat to signal interest in running for the White House, forming an exploratory committee on New Year's Eve.
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