A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She does not talk about her Republican past in either of her books or as part of the biography she recounts in her stump speech the information often comes as a surprise even to Beltway politicos and longtime Warren allies. ![]() In a recent interview over tea at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she said she assumes the first time she registered as a Democrat was 1996, but added, “I’m not even 100 percent sure what I was registered as.” According to Warren, in the six presidential elections she voted in before 1996, she cast her ballot for just one GOP nominee, Gerald Ford in 1976. ![]() Warren has acknowledged her Republican past before, but she does not often discuss it, or else downplays it. It was not until 1996-when Warren was 47 years old and a newly minted Harvard law professor-that she changed her registration from Republican to Democrat. But records from the time Warren spent living in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts make clear that she was a registered Republican for at least several years of her midcareer adult life. For many years before she entered politics, the woman now at the forefront of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was a Republican.Ĭounty governments in New Jersey and Texas, where Warren lived in the 1970s and ’80s, could not locate Warren’s voter registration records, and the senator herself is circumspect about her political past. But Warren used to be on the other side of the fight she is now waging. ![]()
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