US Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren Officially Announces 2020 Presidential Bid

WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th February, 2019) US Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren officially announced on Saturday her 2020 presidential bid in the city of Lawrence, the state of Massachusetts, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Lawrence was selected symbolically as the city witnessed in 1912 one of the most famous labor strikes in the US history.

During her speech, Warren criticized the policy of incumbent US President Donald Trump.

"The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America ... A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else. So once he's gone, we can't pretend that none of this ever happened," the senator said, as quoted by the CNN broadcaster.

Warren, 69, was a prominent scholar specializing in bankruptcy law. She has been senator from the state of Massachusetts since 2013. She is also one of the most recognizable politicians in the Democratic Party.

The next US presidential election will be held in November 2020. Trump is likely to run for the second presidential term.