“I think we can turn this country around,” Ms. Warren said. The comments are Ms. Warren’s clearest and most public confirmation yet that she is preparing to seek the presidency. Ms. Warren, 69, is running for re-election in Massachusetts this year, but she faces only weak Republican opposition and is expected to win easily. A liberal former Harvard Law School professor, she is one of her party’s fiercest critics of President Trump; he, in turn, regularly mocks her with demeaning language. “Working people have taken one punch to the gut after another,” Ms. Warren said, before addressing Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination.

Source: New York Times September 29, 2018 23:50 UTC