For its first election rally in New York, in the first American metropolis, Elizabeth Warren was entitled Monday, September 16, to the enthusiastic encouragement of a compact crowd, massed in front of the arch of the famous park of Washington Square, in the heart of Greenwich Town.
The 70-year-old Democratic senator from Massachusetts has been on the heels of polls in recent weeks, where she now ranks 2nd or 3rd among the 20 Democratic candidates, behind former Vice President Joe Biden and sometimes behind Bernie Sanders.
Elizabeth Warren has listed her proposals, supposedly to revive an American democracy that she deems "corrupt," to the applause and repeated cries of "Warren! Warren! Warren!"
From energy giants to health insurances, to the arms industry and elected officials sold to lobbyists, everyone has an interest in perpetuating a "broken system" to enrich themselves on the backs of working families, hammered this ex Republican from the platform.
A tax on the rich
But this former Harvard law professor "has a plan to fix" all these problems, a little phrase that now rhymes her speeches like a chorus, and which appears on the t-shirts of her supporters: the ban for life of revolving door for the elected representatives of the Congress or the obligation for the candidates to publish their tax declarations, until the health insurance for all and the cancellation of almost all the enormous student debt.
Proposals that it plans to finance by a tax on the rich, 2 cents for every dollar of income above $ 50 million, particularly applauded by the inhabitants of the US financial capital who have resumed chorus, "2 cents! 2 cents! "
Can Elizabeth Warren win the Democratic nomination in 2020? Many recognize that it is too early to say, the primaries to nominate the Democratic candidate who will face the iconoclate US president will not start until early 2020.
With AFP