Newly announced candidate for Senate in Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren said she entered the race after speaking to families across the commonwealth and intends to fight for the middle class.
"It was getting out and talking to families all around in Massachusetts, families who said we're in real trouble here and we need someone who's going to talk about these issues, and after I talked to lots and lots of families here in the commonwealth, I decided this was the right thing to do. And that's why I'm doing it. I'm out here to speak for middle-class families," said Warren on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Wednesday.
The former White House official who built President Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from the ground up formally announced her bid for Senate in Massachusetts on Wednesday.
Warren cited her background growing up in "tough circumstances" and setting up the controversial agency as proof of her ability and will to fight in the Senate campaign.
"I was told when I was down in Washington we couldn't have a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau … and my view on that just meant you stand up and you just push harder, you push back, you don't step down," said Warren.
When asked how she would compete against Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in a general election, she said, "I can be out-spent, but I can't be out-worked."
