Elizabeth Warren Hits Back At Critics: 'I Am Angry And I Own It'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) responded to critics characterizing her presidential campaign as angry by saying theyre right.

Over and over, we are told that women are not allowed to be angry, she said in a campaign fundraising email sent Friday. It makes us unattractive to powerful men who want us to be quiet.

The 2020 hopeful appeared to be hitting back at one of her Democratic opponents, former Vice President Joe Biden , who asserted in a recent Medium post that Warren is emblematic of an angry unyielding viewpoint that has crept into our politics.

Well, I am angry and I own it, Warren wrote. Im angry on behalf of everyone who is hurt by Trumps government, our rigged economy, and business as usual.

Warren in new fundraising email: \"I am angry and I own it\" -- doesn't name Biden, just like his Medium post didn't mention her. pic.twitter.com/6o0gZUftio

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Warren in new fundraising email: "I am angry and I own it" -- doesn't name Biden, just like his Medium post didn't mention her. pic.twitter.com/6o0gZUftio
Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) November 8, 2019

The skirmish began at the start of the month when Warren said in Iowa that Biden was running in the wrong presidential primary . The remark was spurred by his skepticism of her more than $20 trillion Medicare for All plan.

In Bidens essay published online Tuesday, he did not name Warren, but made clear he was responding to her remark.

Some call it the my way or the highway approach to politics, he wrote. But its worse than that. Its condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view.

Biden, who has proposed expanding the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, went on to make his case for the plan, stating it is among the most progressive, transformational ideas in this campaign and I can get them done.

My health care plan expands coverage, lowers costs, lowers drug costs, allows people to keep their private insurance and wont raise taxes on the middle class, he added. I think its the best plan.

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When his plan was unveiled in July, Biden noted that it would cover more than an estimated 97 percent of Americans, meaning roughly 10 million people could end up without insurance.

Warren says her universal coverage proposal would be funded through hiking taxes on businesses and the rich, though its enormous price tag has raised doubts over her assurance that it wont impact the middle class. Bidens campaign has dismissed the plan as a work of mathematical gymnastics .