US Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has announced that she will run for the White House in the 2020 US presidential race, prompting a harsh response from President Donald Trump.
Warren, a 69-year-old lawmaker from Massachusetts, said in a video released to her supporters on Monday that she was launching “an exploratory committee for president” to fight what she called “corruption” in Washington.
A firm critic of Trump, Warren said the US government had been “bought and paid for by a bunch of billionaires and giant corporations that think they get to dictate the rules that affect everyone.”

“That’s not how government is supposed to work,” said Warren. “You know it. I know it. And we know it is time to fight…