Supporters set deadline to convince Warren to run for president

A group urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run for president on Tuesday announced a Feb. 16 deadline to get her to jump in.

{mosads}The group, Ready for Warren, has started an online petition, where it is trying to gather 100,000 signatures by Presidents Day. 

According to MSNBC, which first reported the new effort, the group will also seek to flood Warren with hand-written letters calling on her to run.

“Warren is well-known enough already that she could jump into the race far later and still win,” founder Erica Sagrans will write in an email to supporters, according to MSNBC. “But the fact is that we’ll soon be one year out from the Iowa caucuses, so we can’t afford to wait.”

Warren has passionate backing on the left, and liberals have encouraged her to run amid concerns that Hillary Clinton is too close to Wall Street. But Warren has repeatedly insisted that she is not running. 

Warren was invited to address a gathering of the liberal donors of the Democracy Alliance last week, while Clinton was not. The Democracy Alliance said that was not an indication of a preference for president. 

There were rumblings last week that the Clinton camp is in the early stages of setting up meetings with liberal groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America.