Elizabeth Warren: Everything you need to know about the 2020 candidate

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Democrat Elizabeth Warren is a Massachusetts senator known for her consumer advocacy and efforts to weaken big financial institutions. Her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was created in 2011.


Key facts about Elizabeth Warren:

Current position: Senator from Massachusetts — 6 years served

Age: 69

Born: Oklahoma City

Undergraduate: University of Houston

Date candidacy announced: Feb. 9, 2018

% of votes in line with Trump, per FiveThirtyEight: 13.2%

Previous roles: Law professor; member of Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the $700 billion TARP bank bailout program; named by President Obama to be a special adviser for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Elizabeth Warren's stance on key issues:
Wealth tax: She proposed a 2% tax on wealth beyond $50 million and a 3% tax on wealth above $1 billion.

Green New Deal: Signed on as a co-sponsor of the proposal, after previously expressing support for the "idea" of the GND.

Medicare For All: Co-sponsored Bernie Sanders' bill in September 2017.

Capitalism: Said she identifies as a "Democrat capitalist," rather than a "democratic socialist." She told Pod Save America she sees "the value of markets and that they can produce a lot of good if they have rules."

Big Tech: Proposed in March a plan to break up Google, Facebook and Amazon. It would prohibit companies with over $25 billion in revenue to act as operators and users of a platform and would install regulators to break up already-closed mergers.

Marijuana: Signed on as a cosponsor of Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act to legalize weed at the federal level.

Electoral college: Said in March she would support a plan to replace the electoral college with a national popular vote.

Key criticism of Elizabeth Warren:
Warren has taken heat for her claims of Native American heritage. She commissioned a DNA test in the fall of 2018 to prove she had Cherokee ancestry, which she later apologized for. In February, the Washington Post unearthed a State Bar of Texas registration card in which she listed her race as American Indian.

President Trump has seized on this issue, frequently pointing it out whenever he mentions her, and referring to Warren as "Pocahontas."

1 fun thing about Elizabeth Warren:
She was a state debate champion in Oklahoma and graduated high school at 16.