Polls suggest Elizabeth Warren's anti-crypto army strategy may not pay off
The United States Senator for Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren is making her “anti-crypto” agenda one of the centerpieces of her re-election campaign, despite polls suggesting the majority of Americans think crypto is a key innovation for the future.
In a March 30 Tweet, Warren suggested she was fighting to put “government on the side of working families,” and prominently quoted a Politico headline that said: “Elizabeth Warren is building an Anti-crypto Army.”
The ‘Pro-crypto Army’ took to Twitter to lambast the Senator. Popular YouTuber Coin Bureau ridiculed the strategy, saying, “Imagine thinking that building an 'anti-crypto army' is going to win you votes?” while crypto advocate Lord TJ suggested that the stance will “push innovation offshore.”
While the Senator undoubtedly has access to her own private polling on the issues, recent polls commissioned by the industry suggest the stance will not be a vote winner among the majority of the population.
In a Feb. 24 survey commissioned by crypto exchange Coinbase, a whopping 76% of the representative sample believed that “cryptocurrency and blockchain are the future.”
A survey commissioned by digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments in November 2022 shared similar sentiments, with the responses interestingly suggesting that 59% of Democrats consider crypto to be the future of finance. That's more than the 51% of Republicans who said the same thing.
However in Warren's favor, the crises of 2022 such as the collapses of BlockFi, FTX, and Terra Luna have weighed heavily on crypto sentiment among the public, with a recent survey from Morning Consult finding that trust in crypto had plummeted over the course of the year.
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