Thread by @sahilkapur

SEATTLE — It’s a beautiful day here and this crowd has gathered 30 minutes before an Elizabeth Warren campaign event begins.

Seattle crowd now listening to Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down while waiting for Elizabeth Warren to take the stage.

Elizabeth Warren crowd from the press riser in Seattle.

Warren’s rally started about half an hour later than scheduled. So far it’s her standard stump speech — early life, father’s death at 12, and how her mother supported the family on a minimum wage job, which she laments is not possible today.

Warren now talking corruption and saying addressing it requires “big structural change” rather than little tweaks here or there.

“Whatever issue it is that brought you here — if there is a decision made in Washington, it’s been influenced by money.”

Warren gets applause for promising that as president she’d “enforce anti-trust laws” — not your typical crowd-pleaser line at rallies.

Elizabeth Warren defends her wealth tax in Seattle.

She adds: “I don’t propose a wealth tax because I’m cranky. I don’t propose it because I’m mad at anybody.”

Warren’s done speaking and now on Q&A. She got a couple of “Two cents! Two cents!” and “Warren! Warren!” chants, but her loudest applause line was “overturn Citizens United.”

New: Elizabeth Warren drew her largest crowd yet with an estimated 15,000 today in Seattle.

Asked about it after the rally, she leaned into it as “a sign that people are ready for change in Washington.”

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Elizabeth Warren tells reporters that to achieve legislative success in the presidency, Democrats “need crowds like this — people who are pushing from the outside.”

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Asked by a voter how she'd beat Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren says she won't be cowed by his bullying, and adds: "We’re not gonna win this by just saying 'not Trump'... It’s not enough to be not Trump."

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