Elizabeth Warren meets herself on Saturday Night Live
Senator made cameo on entertainment show after pulling out of Democratic presidential nomination race
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Your support makes all the difference.Senator Elizabeth Warren made a cameo on Saturday Night Live on 7 March, and came face to face with her very own impersonator Kate McKinnon.
Warren’s appearance on SNL came just two days after she announced she was exiting the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The sketch – which led an episode hosted by Daniel Craig - parodied the Fox News show The Ingraham Angle, with Kate McKinnon playing its host, Laura Ingraham.
Introducing Warren, who was playing herself, McKinnon asked her how she has been feeling since withdrawing from the race.
“You know, I’m doing just fine,” Warren said. “My friends and family have been so supportive. They’ve been calling nonstop, asking: ‘Are you OK? What do you need? Were you electable?’ That kind of thing."
McKinnon then showed footage of “Warren debating Mike Bloomberg”, which actually ended up being a viral clip of Warren’s pet dog devouring a burrito.
Asked if she was the dog or the burrito in the video, Warren quipped: “I was the dog.”
Warren joked she had not yet decided who to endorse out of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, saying: “It’s tough. Maybe I’ll just pull a New York Times and endorse them both.”
The senator was alluding to the paper’s unusual decision to support two candidates in the race: Amy Klobuchar and Warren.
Warren said she was pleased with how she had run her campaign. “We built a wide coalition of teachers, preschool teachers, middle-school teachers, and teachers’ pets,” she said. “And not only did I not accept money from billionaires, I got to give one a swirly on live TV.”
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The politician added she now has more time for self-care: “Hanging out with my dog, Bailey. Prank-calling big banks. Drag-racing Subarus. Avoiding Twitter.”
At the very end of the sketch McKinnon – who has impersonated Warren many times – dressed up as the senator and said: “I wanted to put on my favourite outfit to thank you for all that you’ve done in your lifetime.”
To which Warren replied: “I’m not dead — I’m just in the Senate.”
With Warren now out of the running, the Democratic primary is a two-man race between Sanders and Biden, who is currently the prohibitive frontrunner after winning the majority of states and delegates on Super Tuesday.
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