Instagram livestream<\/a>\u00a0on New Year’s Eve, and took questions from followers.<\/p>\nThe seemingly-spontaneous video channeled similar social-media efforts by former Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke and incoming New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, following Warren’s announcement Monday that she is forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 run.<\/p>\n
‘I’m here in my kitchen, uh, and um, I thought maybe we’d just take some questions and I’d see what I can do,’ Warren began as she looked into a camera apparently set up on a countertop.<\/p>\n
She continued: ‘It’s been kind of an amazing day. So, today, I, um, got up early this morning, and, uh, talked to a bunch of folks on the phone, and then went outside and talked to the press — and this is our house, and has been for a long time, and there are all these reporters, and trucks, and everybody outside the house.’<\/p>\n
Shortly afterwards she said: ‘Hold on a second — I’m gonna get me a beer,’ and walked out of view of the camera.<\/p>\n
Warren, who has a proven track record as a small-dollar fundraiser, announced upon returning that she has already received donations from individuals in all 50 states, the District, and\u00a0Puerto Rico, adding: ‘It really has been an exciting day,’ she said.<\/p>\n
She told followers she and her husband would be following their usual New Year’s Eve routine: ‘We watch Casablanca, we get some good food … and, um, we sit there upstairs and we watch Casablanca.’<\/p>\n
She added the movie fills her with hope.<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, used Instagram stories and livestreams during her run last year to connect with her…<\/p>\n
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