so this moment was made for elizabeth warren. i think we all know that. we know that economic inequality is surging, it s at the worst levels in decades. and she has made her life s work speaking out for the little guy. standing up to wall street banks, to billionaires and fighting for their regular american right to get by, to make a decent life for themselves. our message is simple. we need her track record in the presidency. it s a powerful message. she d be a formidable candidate. because she could win in the democratic primary and because she could win in the general election, and because if she doesn t win, we will not have the feisty, real deep debate that we need about where our country is heading and the policies that we need to embrace, especially when it comes to economic inequality and entrenched corporate interests.
yes, it will help hillary clinton. it will help the democratic party to have a competitive primary process. but let me say this, lawrence. senator elizabeth warren, no relation by the way, although maybe spiritually. she is already running. this is a shadow primary. and she has been vocal on these issues like anna pointed out. the clip you showed of hillary clinton, if you didn t show it to us and we just listened, you might have thought it was senator elizabeth warren. she has already moved to the left to respond to the populism of elizabeth warren. so in some ways, she s running. maybe she hasn t declared fishily. she s running in a shadow primary and already influencing the language, the rhetoric of former secretary of state and soon to be presidential candidate hillary clinton. lawrence, could i let me get sam in here and i ll come back to you. there were a lot of overlaps in these pieces.
i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of america. and that is why today i am announcing that i m running for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] today just for a moment ted cruz became the most honest presidential candidate by becoming the first presidential candidate for admitting that he is a presidential candidate, but today he asked only for the votes of conservative americans, which translates to only 38% of the electorate, which is just about exactly what he gets in a poll one on one with hillary clinton. no republican candidate polls worse against hillary clinton than ted cruz does. but today he said nothing to try to appeal to swing voters.
elizabeth warren runs for president. it will make her a better nominee if she s going to be the nominee. yes, it will help hillary clinton. it will help the democratic party to have a competitive primary process. but let me say this lawrence. senator elizabeth warren no relation by the way, although maybe spiritually. she is already running. this is a shadow primary. and she has been vocal on these issues like anna pointed out. the clip you showed of hillary clinton, if you didn t show it to us and we just listened you might have thought it was senator elizabeth warren. she has already moved to the left to respond to the populism of elizabeth warren. so in some ways she s running. maybe she hasn t declared fishily. she s running in a shadow primary and already influencing the language the rhetoric of former secretary of state and soon to be presidential candidate hillary clinton. lawrence could i
saying exactly what needs to be said. so i agree with a lot of what she says but i think hillary clinton s going to be the nominee and hillary clinton s going to win. and she s already adopting some of elizabeth warren s message. the clip that you showed earlier was very very important. everybody s getting the message. people know how to read polls and how to listen to electorates and i think hillary clinton is not an exception to that. the dramatist in me doesn t want to reach for this particular piece of paper on the table here. it is the statement from elizabeth warren s press office. the statement says as senator warren has said many times, she is not running for president. party pooper howard dean there just said it for us. but please keep the speculation going for another couple minutes before we have to go to a commercial. the point every one of these four pieces makes is it will help hillary clinton if