Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is next in my potential presidential nominees for 2020. I have to admit, Warren is my number one pick to lead Democrats to victory. She has the fire, the passion, and the name recognition to be a successful candidate. She has been a Senator for Massachusetts since 2012, and has been very outspoken on issues from women's rights to regulating big banks. Most people know who she is. For those who don't, and for the sake of this article, I will fill you in on some facts that maybe some people do not know.

Elizabeth Warren was raised in Oklahoma. She describes her family as living "on the ragged edge of the middle class" and "kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails." Her mother stayed at home and her father was a janitor, until he suffered a heart attack when Elizabeth was twelve. Shortly after, since her father could no longer do janitorial work he had to take a pay cut, and her mother found work in the catalog order department at Sears. Elizabeth started working when she was thirteen, waiting tables at her aunt's restaurant. Her early life sounds familiar to a lot of folks that are also teetering on the edge of middle class. She has a passion to help the average middle-class family because she was in that family.

After she graduated high school, she received a debate scholarship to George Washington University. She later left the university for Texas to marry her high school sweetheart, Jim Warren. While living in Houston, she graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor of science degree in speech pathology and audiology. After their first child was born she enrolled in Rutgers School of Law-Newark. When she passed her bar examine she worked as a lawyer from home writing wills and doing real estate closings.

Elizabeth Warren has been a hard fighter for consumer rights in the banking industry. She was the strongest proponent for President Obama's creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This Bureau's main priority is to promote fairness and transparency for mortgages, credit cards, and other consumer financial products and services. A big part of it is to make sure student loans, credit cards, and other services have fair interest rates.

Since she won her Senate seat in 2012 she has become one of the most powerful Democrats among her colleagues. She's fought for women's rights, middle-class families, 9/11 first responders, and so many others. Just recently I am happy to say that she is a co-sponsor for Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" bill, saying "Health care is a basic human right – and it’s time to fight for it." When she and other Democrats were opposing the appointment of Jeff Sessions, Warren read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King in which she asked the Senate Majority Leader Strom Thurmond urging him not to vote for Sessions for a federal judgeship because of his racist background. While reading the letter, Warren was interrupted by now Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who stated she "had violated Senate Rule 19, claiming that she impugned Jeff Sessions' character when she quoted statements made by Mrs. King." He also said that she was asked to stop but, "nevertheless she persisted," which became a battle cry for women everywhere. She is running for Senate re-election in 2018 and is a top choice for Democrats for president in 2020. She is my number one pick to run against Trump and/or Republicans.