Hyannis, Massachusetts (CNN) – Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown rode into office two years ago as an everyman with a pickup truck, vowing to "take back the peoples' seat" held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for nearly half a century.
Here on Cape Cod, Brown's breezy persona persists as he strolls down Main Street, shaking hands, posing for pictures and playfully shouting to a passerby to keep her eyes on the road.
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(CNN) – Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren raised more than $8.6 million in the last three months, her campaign announced Monday.
The second quarter figure surpassed her first quarter amount of $6.9 million. She now has $13.5 million cash on hand, according to the campaign.
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(CNN) – Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren received some warm praise Monday from her party's top surrogate: President Barack Obama.
After Warren introduced the president at a Boston campaign event, Obama took the stage and urged voters to support Warren in her heated challenge against Republican Sen. Scott Brown.
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(CNN) – Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts declined an invitation from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute to debate his rival, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, citing Vicki Kennedy's plan to endorse Warren.
"We respect Vicki Kennedy's decision but we regret that we cannot accept a debate invitation from someone who plans to endorse Scott Brown's opponent," Brown's campaign manager Jim Barnett said in a statement Tuesday. "The Kennedy Institute cannot hold itself out as a nonpartisan debate sponsor while the president of its board of trustees gets involved in the race on behalf of one of the candidates."
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(CNN) – The contenders for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts both released new television ads Monday, with Republican Sen. Scott Brown placing the focus on his family background and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren highlighting economic problems that she worked to solve as a consumer advocate.
The new ads come after nearly a month in which the Massachusetts race was consumed with the question of Warren's ethnic background. After Boston newspapers reported Warren was listed as Native American in law school directories in the 1990s, Brown's campaign questioned her intentions and pushed her to disclose more information.
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(CNN) - Democrat Elizabeth Warren won her party’s nomination Saturday for a U.S. Senate seat out of Massachusetts, avoiding a primary and advancing directly to the November general election against incumbent Sen. Scott Brown.
No Senate candidate has ever avoided such a vote in Democratic Party history, the party election committee said, a feat which requires receiving the support of more than 85% of state party convention delegates.
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(CNN) - The Massachusetts race for a U.S. Senate seat remains neck and neck between Republican Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, a poll released Saturday showed.
Brown had 39% of the voters likely to cast ballots in the November election, while Warren, who leads several Democrats vying to unseat him, had 37%. Their two-point difference was well within the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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(CNN) – Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is all about his bipartisan voting record in a new ad set in a diner as he continues to push his everyman narrative.
Tuesday's commercial is his second of this election cycle and the second to highlight his independence in the upper chamber.
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(CNN) – The Massachusetts race for a U.S. Senate seat remains deadlocked between Sen. Scott Brown, the incumbent Republican, and Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a poll released Wednesday showed.
Brown had a one-point advantage over Warren, though the 48% and 47% they scored, respectively, is within the Suffolk University/7News poll’s sampling error of plus or minus four points.
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(CNN) – The recent controversy over Massachusetts congressional candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry, where the campaign of her opponent for a senate seat called for her to release documents claiming her Cherokee ancestry, has caused some to ask: What makes someone "legitimately" Native American? And who gets to make that determination?
"Fundamentally, it's the tribe’s right to determine who its citizens are and are not. If we don't know (whether someone is American Indian), we can ask the tribe," said Julia Good Fox, professor of American Indian Studies at Haskell Indian Nations University.
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