Warren: ‘We’re going to do just fine’
Up in the polls and hoping to carry the entire Democratic ticket on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has one goal in the coming days. “Turn out the vote, turn out the vote, and turn out the vote,” she said yesterday after a campaign canvass event in Brockton with volunteers. “Those are voters, and more to the point, they’re door-knockers and they’re phone-callers and they’re sign-holders, these are people that are going to bring in their families, they’re going to bring in their friends, they’re going to stop people in the parking lot, they’re going to turn out the vote.” Warren said the strategy is simple, and says she plans to crisscross the state in the coming days. Yesterday, she also appeared in New Bedford, and will have events in Worcester and Springfield today. As has been the case with much of her campaign, Warren used most of her roughly 11-minute speech to talk about President Trump and national Republican leadership, only mentioning her opponent, state Rep. Geoff Diehl, once. “One single vote going the other way and we’d have lost health care for millions of people, lost protection for people with pre-existing conditions, lost real money every year here in the commonwealth of Massachusetts,” Warren said. “My opponent wants to go to Washington to be that one, single vote. He says the principle he’s running on is he wants to go to Washington to be able to roll back health care for Americans, to roll back protection for people with pre-existing conditions, to take away money from people right here in Massachusetts.” Warren said she and gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez will continue to hit the campaign trail today, urging voters and volunteers to vote for the entire Democratic ticket. “We’re going to have a lot of fun this weekend, the two of us. We’re going all around the state just to turn out those votes,” she said. “When everybody votes, we win. That’s what it’s about. We get everybody out there to vote, we’re going to do just fine in this election.” Warren’s trip to Ohio last week was just the latest in a string of national campaign trips to support Democratic candidates. She said she doesn’t know whether Democrats will be able to take control of the Senate, but said her travels have been aimed at improving Democratic numbers in the Capitol. “I stood on the floor of the United States Senate when health care hung by one single vote. The Republicans have said if they get that vote, they’re repealing health care,” she said. “I want more allies for Massachusetts, more allies who will be in this fight, all the way, to protect healthcare, to protect social security, to fight for our students, to fight for our students.” Warren said she will not travel out of state again before the election.