Hope springs eternal for people trying to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren into the presidential race, which means that this doubtless won't be enough to satisfy them. NPR's Steve Inskeep asked Warren
what she would say to the various progressive groups urging her to run:
I'm, I'm not running for president. That's not what we're doing. We had a really important fight in the United States Congress just this past week. And I'm putting all my energy into that fight and to what happens after this.
Not. Good. Enough. (Hope springs eternal.)
Would you tell these independent groups, "Give it up!" You're just never going to run.
I told them, "I'm not running for president."
You're putting that in the present tense, though. Are you never going to run?
I am not running for president.
You're not putting a "never" on that.
I am not running for president. You want me to put an exclamation point at the end?
It's not just that she's repeatedly put that exclamation point on "I am not running," it's that Warren
does more good right where she is than she would do in a presidential primary dominated by Hillary Clinton. Non-Wall Street Americans are better off, the Democratic Party is better off, with Warren leaving "blood and teeth on the floor" in policy fights in the Senate than we are with her shaping herself to the requirements of a presidential campaign in this day and age.
It's absolutely right to want Warren to have the most prominent platform and biggest megaphone possible. It's just wrong to think the way for her to get that is by running for president.