Elizabeth Warren has a history with Rep. Joe Kennedy III, but she’s endorsed incumbent Sen. Ed Markey. The awkwardness is hard to miss.
BOSTON — When Elizabeth Warren needed a glowing introduction to her speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, her former law school student, Rep. Joe Kennedy III, was there to provide it. When she needed someone to introduce her to the teeming crowd when she launched her presidential campaign earlier this year, Kennedy once again was the choice.
With speculation about the race building to a fever pitch, Warren once again was forced to address the issue last weekend.Sign Up "I'm not worried about any part of that," Warren told reporters on Saturday. "You can ask this 400 different ways and you're going to get the same answer. I've endorsed Sen. Markey, I am friends with Congressman Kennedy and with Sen. Markey. That's what I have to say."
At the state party convention, where both Markey and Warren were keynote speakers, the two senators did not appear together — Attorney General Maura Healey brought Warren onstage. But Markey was careful to highlight his relationship with Warren. Before he addressed the party activists, he played an introduction video that featured clips of Warren and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsing him.
As Warren went to Washington in the aftermath of the crash and pushed for a consumer finance watchdog as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform package, Kennedy assisted her efforts by lobbying then-Massachusetts Rep. Bill Delahunt — for whom Kennedy once served as an intern — on the proposal.
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