Warren for President

"Root Out Corruption" +*

:60 TV ad run on FS1 during Iowa State-Oklahoma State football game on Oct. 25, 2019.

[Music]

Warren (voiceover):  I'm Elizabeth Warren and I approve this message.

When I was growing up in Oklahoma, all three of my brothers went off to the military.  That was their ticket to the middle class. 

Now me, my dream was to be a teacher.  I got a scholarship and went off to school, but dropped out and married at 19.

My second chance was a commuter college that cost $50 a semester.

Today, there are fewer paths to America's middle class and even fewer second chances.

Service members are targeted by predatory lenders.  Students are crushed by debt.  Families can't afford child care.  And after generations of discrimination, people of color face an even narrower path to opportunity.

When we have a government that works for the rich and the powerful and leaves everyone else behind, it's corruption pure and simple.

Warren (audio clip from speech):  We must root it out and return our democracy to the people, and yes, I got a plan for that. [cheers]

Notes:  Although the Warren campaign announced in a Sept. 24 memo from campaign manager Roger Lau that, "We're launching an eight-figure digital and TV advertising campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina," the memo also stated, "It will be more digital than old-school broadcast television."  That proved to be true; through Nov. 23 the campaign did not do any TV advertising with the exception of this one-time ad.  The video version of the ad first appeared in conjunction with the Sept. announcement.

See:
Naomi Lim.  "Warren ad highlighting middle-class struggles features woman driving Lexus."  Washington Examiner, Sept. 25, 2019.
Naomi Lim.  "Warren campaign blurs Lexus logo out of ad highlighting middle-class struggles."  Washington Examiner, Oct. 29, 2019.