Warren calls for "systemic change" at New Hampshire's first swing

MANCHESTER, NH – Senator Elizabeth Warren called for a "systemic change" from the elimination of for-profit jails to the legalization of marijuana to the establishment of drug programs. Housing fairer during his first election campaign in New Hampshire Saturday, Saturday.

"We need to make changes in this country, not a small change, no change in the margin, not a bite to eat, not even a good law here and a good law over there," Warren said. at Manchester Community College, which according to his campaign, has attracted about 500. "We must make systemic changes in this country."

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The Massachusetts Democrat is Perceived as a major opponent in the early 2020 primary of the Granite State, where his closest competition might be Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders., who won the state's Democratic primaries in 2016 and weighs one Another shot during a question-and-answer session that lasted an hour Saturday, Warren repeatedly stressed the problems of people of color, a group that Sanders was struggling to reach for his first candidacy for the first time. M aison Blanche

for-profit prisons and legalizing marijuana to end the disproportionate arrests and convictions of people of color, in response to a question on the reform of criminal justice posed by Pedro Altagracia, 26, of Concord .

"We now have a criminal justice system that tears apart communities of color and individuals," Warren said. "It's a broken criminal justice system, one after the other."

The Massachusetts Democrat also praised his plans to build more affordable housing and rents for middle- and low-income families. She called for the increase in inheritance taxes that were dropped under President George W. Bush and again targeted by Republicans when recast their taxation in 2017.

"You can pay each of those 3.2 million housing units without costing a single third, "says Warren.

In his speech on the stump, Warren, a former Harvard professor, refuted the hypothesis that she was a product of the Ivy League. "For those who think that I was born at Harvard, in actually, I went to the state law school, "she said referring to Rutgers University in New Jersey. As she had already done in Iowa, Warren focused on his education in Oklahoma, serving his big brothers in the Army and his parents struggling to keep their finances afloat.

Warren was the first Democrat of his name to announce the creation of an exploratory committee: while she was courting voters from New Hampshire to Manchester and at a party at home in Concord the number of candidates in 2020 increased. two. The ocrate Julian Castro officially announced that he would attend an event in San Antonio after launching an exploratory committee in 2018, and Hawaiian representative, Tulsi Gabbard, announced his 2020 run on CNN the night before.

But Sanders was the competitor who occupied the minds of many in the crowd on Saturday, many of whom told POLITICO that they were going to decide between Vermont legislator and Warren.

Megan Arsenault, 27, of Concord, she voted for Sanders in 2016 but does not know if she will support him again or if she will choose Warren in 2020. She supports the Office of the consumer protection, which Warren proposed and implemented after its creation by the 2010 Dodd – Frank law.

"This is outstanding at this time," Arsenault said of her main vote in 2020.

She asked how she would capture the 60% of New Hampshire Democrats who voted for Sanders rather than Hillary Clinton. Eventually Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, Warren told reporters that she was running because "her life has been devoted to what is happening in American working families".

"I do not know if she will be the last candidate I support, but I am a great admi rer," said Rosie Little of Concord, who said she agreed with Warren's plans to help the middle class.

Rich Lawless of Hooksett, 61, attended the Warren event with his 10-year-old grandson, Killian Kirby. "We are here to see the show, we are here to listen," said Lawless. The goal of both countries is to have as many New Hampshire candidates as possible in 2020. In the last cycle, Kirby attended the events organized by President Donald Trump and President Clinton and met with Senator Rand Paul (R -ky.). Lawless said that he had voted for Trump in 2016 and that he was happy to see the booming construction in New England, but that his decision was not made for the February primary. next.

Warren, critic of the Speaker in the Senate, did not use Trump's name during the election campaign in the past two weeks. This is a break with her re-election strategy in 2018, when she often tied her Republican opponent to the President during debates.

"We have to talk about our affirmative vision," Warren said Saturday. "I'm ready to fight, everyone knows, the question is how to build an America that works not only for those who are at the top, but an America that works for everyone?"