GOP Senate Candidate Kingston Mocks Warren’s ‘Nevertheless She Persisted’ Anniversary

BOSTON — Businessman John Kingston, one of three Republicans angling for the party nod to challenge Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in November, recognized on Wednesday the one-year anniversary of the Warren’s “nevertheless, she persisted,” Senate floor moment with a playful series of statements.

A year ago, Warren was repeatedly asked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to refrain from “impugning” a fellow member, a violation of Senate rules, during then-Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions’s confirmation process to become U.S. Attorney General. The full Senate eventually voted to silence Warren.

After the vote McConnell reminded the Cambridge Democrat that she was provided with several warnings, and added in a since-famous comment that became both a rallying cry for feminists on the left and a fund-raising tool for Warren’s campaign, “nevertheless, she persisted.”

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