--- 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.,... title: ‘I Have a Plan For That.’ Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt690c09166e649e89/698949a37cdbacd5d1d5f7fa/elizabeth_warren_iowa_2020_1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 'I Have a Plan For That.' Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 9, 2019 9:43 AM CUT  Warren on the campaign trail on May 3 in Iowa, where she’s hired dozens of paid staff to compete in the first caucus state. Warren on the campaign trail on May 3 in Iowa, where she’s hired dozens of paid staff to compete in the first caucus state.Krista Schlueter for TIME by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 9, 2019 9:43 AM CUT 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., 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/ "undefined") ```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. After a packed gathering at an elementary school in Concord, N.H.,...","url":"https://time.com/5586439/i-have-a-plan-for-that-elizabeth-warren-is-betting-that-americans-are-ready-for-her-big-ideas/","keywords":["2020 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt690c09166e649e89/698949a37cdbacd5d1d5f7fa/elizabeth_warren_iowa_2020_1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt690c09166e649e89/698949a37cdbacd5d1d5f7fa/elizabeth_warren_iowa_2020_1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ELIZABETH_WARREN_Iowa_2020_1","caption":"Warren on the campaign trail on May 3 in Iowa, where she’s hired dozens of paid staff to compete in the first caucus state.","creditText":"Krista Schlueter for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5586439/i-have-a-plan-for-that-elizabeth-warren-is-betting-that-americans-are-ready-for-her-big-ideas/","name":"'I Have a Plan For That.' Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas"}}]}] ```