• Sen. Elizabeth Warren formally endorsed former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in a Wednesday morning video. 
• Warren’s nod comes after both Sen. Bernie Sanders and former President Barack Obama endorsed Biden earlier this week. 
• The Massachusetts Senator officially ended her own presidential campaign on March 5 after a disappointing finish on Super Tuesday, including losing her home state of Massachusetts to Biden. 
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren formally endorsed former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president in a Wednesday morning video. 

Warren’s nod comes after both Sen. Bernie Sanders, who dropped out of the presidential race on April 8, and former President Barack Obama endorsed Biden earlier this week. 

—Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 15, 2020

In her endorsement video, Warren gave a nod to Biden’s humble beginnings (for years, Biden has jokingly referred to himself as “Middle-Class Joe”), and commended him for dedicated his entire adult life to public service. 

“Empathy matters. And in this moment of crisis, it is more important than ever that the next president restores Americans’ faith in good, effective government,” Warren said. “Joe Biden has spent nearly his entire life in public service. He knows that a government run with integrity, competence, and heart will save lives and save livelihoods.”

The Massachusetts Senator officially ended her own presidential campaign on March 5 after a disappointing finish on Super Tuesday, including losing her home state of Massachusetts to Biden. 

Warren, one of the nation’s top bankruptcy lawyers, and Biden have clashed on policy, with Warren even grilling Biden on banking and consumer protection legislation in congressional hearings she testified at as a Harvard Law Professor before she was elected to the US Senate.

But in a broad overture to Sanders’ and Warren’s voters, Biden has now adopted some of the highly progressive, worker-focused plans that defined Warren’s presidential campaign, including her bankruptcy reform legislation that the two disagreed over so many years ago. 

Warren built her campaign on a message of “big structural change” focused on centering the voices and needs of working people over big corporations and billionaires.

And in Obama’s endorsement video of Biden, he too commended Sanders for his lifelong advocacy on behalf of working-class people and gave a shoutout to Warren’s “big structural change” messaging, encouraging Democrats not to look to the past, but to embrace bold new solutions for the future.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-endorses-joe-biden-for-president-2020-4