Warren announces Detroit, Lansing presidential campaign stops

Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Tuesday morning that she will make her first campaign stops in Michigan in early June as her campaign continues to steadily climb national polls.

Warren will appear in Detroit and Lansing on June 4 and June 5, respectively. The progressive nonprofit Focus HOPE will host Warren in Detroit. The next day, she’ll make her case at Lansing Community College for a large-scale overhaul of the American economy.

Warren pairs a populist appeal similar to that of fellow presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with a technocratically specific list of policy proposals that’s led her campaign to sell T-shirts proclaiming “Warren has a plan for that.” The Massachusetts senator and Oklahoma native has risen from a January low of around 4 percent in the RealClearPolitics national average of polling to almost 10 percent today.

Her national campaign’s footprint has grown at the same time, including the two upcoming stops in Michigan and another early June appearance in Indiana, which will be the 19th and 20th states she’s visited, respectively.

The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that Warren plans to release a new major policy proposal within the next week, following similarly ambitious pitches for free college and a so-called “ultra-millionaire tax.”

Warren will be the 12th Democratic candidate to campaign in Michigan, following U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), former U.S. Reps. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) and former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), businessman Andrew Yang, Miramar, Fla. Mayor Wayne Messam, and author Marianne Williamson.