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The former vice president, like Warren, had previously said that he would reject any help from a super PAC but dropped his opposition in October after his fundraising numbers fell well short of his Democratic opponents.

Warren’s own campaign website pledges that the Massachusetts senator “rejects the help of Super PACs and would disavow any Super PAC” — a statement that was still on her website as of Thursday afternoon.

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PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren gestures as she addresses the Care in Action Domestic Worker Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.,
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“We’ve got to overturn Citizens United because our democracy is not for sale,” the campaign website states. “In the meantime, Democrats should show some moral backbone by refusing their own Super PACs in the 2020 primary.”

The new super PAC backing Warren, “Persist,” was launched earlier this week by a group of progressive women. They filed with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday afternoon and released an ad the same night.

The PAC’s name echoes one of Warren's taglines. \"Nevertheless, she persisted\" has long been a core mantra for the campaign's brand, following a contentious exchange with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor in 2017.

The PAC is putting seven figures behind pro-Warren ads leading up to Saturday’s caucuses and expects to run more ads in primary states to come.

Persist PAC is led by DC-based Democratic strategist Karin Johanson and Kim Rogers, the former political director of Heartland, a PAC started by former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack aimed at electing Democratic governors.

Also on the board is Kristine Kippins, who is separately the policy director for the Constitutional Accountability Center, work unaffiliated with the PAC's efforts; prior to, she served as counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights.

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PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren addresses the Care in Action Domestic Worker Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., February 18, 2020.
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The group hasn't filed donor disclosure records providing details on who's funding it, though the New York Times reported that EMILY’s List contributed $250,000 to both Klobuchar and Warren’s super PACs.

Throughout her presidential run, Warren has sought to distance herself from big-money groups, swearing off contributions from PACs and rejecting private high-dollar fundraisers. But the campaign cannot control outside groups' independent expenditures in support.

For their part, a spokesperson for the Persist PAC said they support Warren's goals to keep big money out of politics, but emphasized that it might not happen unless they play by the campaign rules that exist today.

\"When you don't grow up rich, you learn how to work,\" narrated a female voice in the PAC's first ad, released late Tuesday night.

\"When the system is broken, you step up to fix it,\" the narrator said as the ad featured a photo of Warren, hands with \"Stop Kavanaugh\" penned in ink on the palm. \"That's why Obama picked her.\"

\"It's why she'll take him on — and win,\" the narrator said, quickly intercutting a shot of President Donald Trump.

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