By Joe Dwinell | [email protected] | Boston Herald January 4, 2019 at 12:27 am Potential 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants billionaires bounced out of the Democratic primary — and that includes super PACs. “This is a moment for all of the Democratic nominees, as they come into the race, to say, in a Democratic primary, we are going to link arms, and we are going to say grassroots funding. No to the billionaires,” she told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow Wednesday night. By criticizing the mega-rich, she knocked the likes of Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, as Maddow pointed out. Both men are would-be rivals that fall into the billionaire category. Warren said the primary should be a grassroots movement and not “one more plaything billionaires can buy.” She said the race should be about “what you can build.” Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is a billionaire media mogul who is listed 11th on the Forbes magazine rundown of the nation’s wealthiest people. Bloomberg said he’ll make up his mind about a run for president by February. Forbes lists his worth at $50 billion. Steyer, a venture capitalist, is an anti-Trump Democrat who said he will visit… Read full this story
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