‘Get up off our rear ends’ or lose badly in midterms, Elizabeth Warren warns Democrats

Elizabeth Warren told CNN: ‘We’ve got less than 200 days until the election and American families are hurting.’ Photograph: Reuters

Democrats need to “get up off our rear ends” and work to bring down prices and runaway inflation, or face wipeout in November’s midterm elections, the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren warns.

In a forthright interview Sunday morning on CNN’s State of the Union, the former candidate for her party’s presidential nomination also lambasted the Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy as “a liar and a traitor” after he was caught on tape lying about his support for Donald Trump after the 6 January insurrection.