--- title: ‘I Have a Plan For That.’ Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas description: Voters encountering Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail these days often seem surprised. After a packed gathering at an elementary school in Concord, N.H.,... canonical: https://time.com/5586439/i-have-a-plan-for-that-elizabeth-warren-is-betting-that-americans-are-ready-for-her-big-ideas/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-09T09:43:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T23:29:32.204Z article:section: Politics og:title: ‘I Have a Plan For That.’ Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas og:description: Voters encountering Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail these days often seem surprised. 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After a packed gathering at an elementary school in Concord, N.H., in April, a 40-something woman told me she had expected Warren to be more like Hillary Clinton but found them miles apart. A college student who caught Warren’s speech in Hanover said he was perplexed to learn that a woman once described by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s political director as a “threat to free enterprise” in fact believes in entrepreneurship and markets. And at an event in a Portsmouth high school cafeteria, a retired teacher told me he’d heard Warren was a “Ted Cruz–like partisan” but instead found her charming. “She seems like a real doll,” he shrugged. “Can I say that?” [Read the full TIME cover story here.](http://time.com/longform/elizabeth-warren-2020/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5586439/i-have-a-plan-for-that-elizabeth-warren-is-betting-that-americans-are-ready-for-her-big-ideas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5586439/i-have-a-plan-for-that-elizabeth-warren-is-betting-that-americans-are-ready-for-her-big-ideas/"},"headline":"'I Have a Plan For That.' Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas","datePublished":"2019-05-09T09:43:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T23:29:32.204Z","description":"Voters encountering Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail these days often seem surprised. 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