Elizabeth Warren looks to challenge Trump in 2020 race

US senator Elizabeth Warren has become the first to throw her hat in the ring as the Democratic Party searches for a challenger to run against President Donald Trump in 2020.

The liberal firebrand said yesterday she was forming an exploratory committee, the first step along the path to challenge for the party’s nomination.

The senator from Massachusetts, 69, said she would decide whether to run early this year.

“Every person in America should be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules, and take care of themselves and the people they love. That’s what I’m fighting for, and that’s why I’m launching an exploratory committee for president,” Warren said on Twitter.

In a video released with the tweet Warren attacked billionaires, big corporations and politicians for cutting their own taxes and rolling back financial regulation.

“America's middle class is getting hollowed out and opportunity for too many of our young people is shrinking,” she told reporters outside her home. “So I'm in this fight all the way. Right now Washington works great for the wealthy and the well connected. It's just not working for anyone else.”

Warren has been one of President Trump’s harshest critics since he took office in January 2017. She has called him an “insecure money grubber” whose platform is made up of “racism, sexism and xenophobia.

Meanwhile Trump, who refers to Warren as Pocahontas due to her claims of native American heritage, has dismissed the senator as “goofy” and a “lowlife” with “a nasty mouth”.

In an interview with Fox News yesterday the president said: “We’ll see how she does, I wish her well, I hope she does well, I’d love to run against her.”

Asked if Warren believes she can win, Trump said: “That I don’t know, you’d have to ask her psychiatrist.”