Article snippet: CHARLESTON, S.C.— Senator Elizabeth Warren will stick with her ban on courting wealthy donors for her presidential campaign if she becomes the Democratic Party’s nominee, shifting her stance on a policy that she had suggested would apply only to the primary. “When Elizabeth is the Democratic nominee for president, she’s not going to change a thing in how she runs her campaign,” Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for Warren, said Wednesday. “That means no PAC money. No federal lobbyist money. No special access or call time with rich donors or big-dollar fund-raisers to underwrite our campaign.” But to assuage Democrats worried that a purist fund-raising stance could hobble the party’s war chest ahead of a battle royale with President Trump, Warren and her representatives said she will continue to attend fund-raising events for the Democratic National Committee, state parties, and down-ballot candidates. “I’m not asking our state parties or our national party to unilaterally disarm,” Warren said after a campaign event at a community center here on Wednesday, echoing a warning she herself made about her fund-raising pledge when she first announced it. “I’m going to help them raise money.” That could set up a tricky — and novel — balancing act if Warren continues her rise in the polls and becomes the nominee for a party that will be desperate to raise all it can to take on Trump. As small-dollar donors become increasingly important to the Democratic Party, Warren’s ban ... Link to the full article to read more
Warren vows not to hold big-money fund-raisers even if she’s Democratic nominee - The Boston Globe
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