Elizabeth Warren stumps for HRC in Columbus, OH
As the Ohio State Buckeyes prepared for a football matchup against Oklahoma on Saturday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Ohio senatorial candidate Ted Strickland addressed a crowd of about 600 in the Ohio Union, where they pitched both Strickland’s and Hillary Clinton’s candidacies.
Strickland and Warren are the latest of a slew of high-profile Democrats to visit Ohio in recent days as part of a blitz on the Buckeye state by the Clinton campaign. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who ran against Clinton for the Democratic nomination, and Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, have also been campaigning in Ohio for the Democratic presidential nominee.
Warren spent time creating parallels between Wall Street regulation after the Great Depression, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the post-World War II economic boom and Clinton’s platform, which she said addresses issues of financial reform, racial discrimination and economics geared toward the middle class.
Hanna Detwiler, a third-year in English and psychology and communications director for OSU’s College Democrats, said the event left her excited.
“(Strickland and Warren) are both amazing progressives,” she said, citing the portions of their speeches directed at financial reform.
Detwiler also added she was not worried by the polling numbers Clinton and Strickland are facing.
“It’s not unusual to see the polls looking like this at this time in the election,” Detwiler said, recalling Warren’s story of going from being down 4 percentage points in Massachusetts to winning the 2012 election by 7.5 percentage points. “(We Democrats) aren’t afraid of the polls, we’re going to keep fighting.”
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