Warren to spend final campaign days with big-name candidates

Sen. Elizabeth Warren will spend the final three weeks before Election Day campaigning for Democrats in some of the toughest Senate races, the Massachusetts lawmaker announced in a blog post on Monday.

{mosads}Warren’s efforts will take her to Colorado and Minnesota on behalf of her Democratic colleagues in the Senate, Mark Udall and Al Franken. She will also head to Iowa looking to bolster the candidacy of four-term Rep. Bruce Braley (D) in his battle against Republican Joni Ernst to fill the open seat of the retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D).

“If doing everything we can for 22 days means we’ll be able to spend the next two years pressing forward in our fight to give just a little bit of relief to single moms struggling on minimum wage, or to college students getting crushed with loans, or to women who just want access to birth control, then I’m ready for that fight,” Warren said.

Warren, who many believe could launch a bid for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, said her efforts were motivated by Braley’s statistical tie with Ernst, as well as a poll showing Udall “down by six to extreme conservative Cory Gardner.” Warren also said Franken’s “lead may be slipping down to single digits in the final days of this campaign.”

“I’m going to Minnesota because Al won his last election by only 312 votes, and no one’s taking anything for granted,” she said.

Warren has already visited 15 states to campaign for Democratic Senate and gubernatorial candidates. She did not release details of when she plans to campaign for those three candidates.