Elizabeth Warren turns a bus ride into a town hall
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) does not waste a moment that could be spent talking policy.
On Thursday evening, the 2020 contender was saddled with flying out of what Reagan National Airport calls its "infamously congested Gate 35X" — a gate that forces its passengers to take a shuttle to their planes parked somewhere far away. Yet Warren made the most of the miserable bus ride, tying her impending West Virginia flight into an improvised town hall on the opioid crisis, which of course she has a presidential plan to fight.
In true New England fashion, Warren clutched a Dunkin' iced coffee as someone on the bus asked why she was heading to West Virginia. "I hope it's a good place to talk about" the opioid crisis, Warren said, seeming in high spirits despite the fact that her flight was running two hours late, CNN reports.
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This seems to be just the latest installment in Warren's transit town hall series. Last time, she discussed the Mueller report in New York City's Penn Station.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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