Elizabeth Warren, the unlikely politician who won a Senate seat as a champion of economically-struggling families, has emerged as a leading prospective candidate for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Raised in Oklahoma on what she calls “the jagged edge of the middle class,” she rose to teach at Harvard Law School before entering elective office in 2013 at age 63.  Heavily-favored to win a second-term from Massachusetts voters in November, she sat down with me at a café in Pittsfield on July 22, 2018 to talk about President Trump, the economy and the path forward for Democrats. What follows is a lightly-edited version of our conversation.