A new Republican candidate has launched a challenge to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts.
This week, Ian Cain, the council president in the city of Quincy, hurled plenty of criticisms Warren’s way when he officially announced the launch of his campaign Wednesday.
In a campaign video that he posted to social media this week, Cain said:
“No one has disappointed Massachusetts more than Elizabeth Warren. Instead of working for Massachusetts, she’s working for herself. What’s worse is she’s incapable of delivering real results because she’s so bogged down in the extreme partisanship that keeps Washington and our government at a standstill.”
Along with the video, Cain posted other negative headlines about Warren on his social media accounts. This included a viral headline that was published when she was drinking a beer during an Instagram Live broadcast when she announced she was running for president in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
All senators representing Massachusetts have been solid Democrats for nearly the last 10 years. That began during Warren’s first year in Congress, back in 2013
The last Republican to represent Massachusetts on the U.S. Senate was Scott Brown, who lost to Warren during the 2012 election.
In addition to serving as the president of the City Council in Quincy, Cain also created a startup incubator that’s focused on blockchain technology.
In a recent interview, he told Politico that Warren is “grossly out of touch and out of step with Massachusetts voters” for the stances she’s taken against cryptocurrency in the past.
According to Cain’s campaign website, his top issues in the upcoming election include ending inflation, public safety, China, border security and the immigration crisis as a whole.
In the social media video, Cain, who is 41 years old, also attacked Warren’s age, as she is 74 years old. He said that he wants to “usher in the next generation of leadership” in the Senate.
As part of his interview with Politico, Cain said that Warren is the person who “presumably as soon as they came into this office in 2012, was focused on running for President of the United STates and has largely been focused outward outside of the state. Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have local issues in mind.”
Warren’s reelection campaign countered that argument by saying that during her time in the Senate, she’s been able to secure more than $50 in federal funding for Massachusetts.
In addition to Cain, Warren is facing a challenge from Republican John Deaton, who is a former Marine and also serves as a lawyer in the cryptocurrency industry.
In announcing his candidacy back in February, Deaton said:
“I fought for the little guy. I took on the greedy corporations and the heartless insurance companies and I won. I am running for U.S. Senate to continue my life’s mission to shake things up for the people who need it most.”
Despite these two challenges, it’s still widely expected that Warren will win reelection come November.
