The 2020 presidential campaign of Elizabeth Warren, the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, began with Warren’s formal announcement on February 19, 2019. The announcement followed widespread speculation that she would run after supporters urged her to run in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. On February 9, 2019, Warren officially announced her run at a rally in Lawrence, Massachusetts, at the site of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. Warren has been considered a top contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President.