BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is preparing to bring a populist message to Iowa voters just days after taking her first major step toward launching a campaign for president. The Massachusetts Democrat told reporters on Wednesday that she’s planning to visit the state with the nation’s first presidential caucuses after being sworn in on Thursday to a second Senate term. She plans to start her swing through Iowa on Friday with a stop at an organizing event in Council Bluffs followed by similar events on Saturday in Sioux City and Des Moines and a roundtable discussion in Storm Lake.

Doors open 5-p.m. Friday for Warren’s 6-p.m. event at The Gathering Room (1900 Madison Avenue), in Council Bluffs. The event is open to the public on a first-come, first served basis. The event’s Facebook page says that signing up does not guarantee entry into the event. For more information or to RSVP here: https://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/join-elizabeth-in-council-bluffs-?source=20190101facebook

Warren said that Washington “works great for the wealthy and the well-connected” but that it needs to work for everybody else. Warren on Monday announced she’s launching an exploratory committee for president. She is the most prominent Democrat yet in what is expected to be a crowded field of fellow contenders hoping to retake the White House from Republican President Donald Trump in 2020. The former Harvard law professor made a name for herself a decade ago with calls for greater consumer protections, which led to the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under former Democratic President Barack Obama. Warren said she plans to run on many of those same basic economic issues, which she said have been made even more precarious by Washington politics.

Warren was been a favorite target of Trump, who frequently calls her “Pocahontas” — a reference to Warren’s claims of Native American heritage. Warren in October released a DNA test meant to bolster those claims, but the test seemed only to generate more controversy for Warren. The test indicated that Warren likely had Native American in her bloodline, though the ancestor probably lived six to 10 generations ago. Some critics complained that the genetic analysis cheapened the identities of tribal members with deeper ties.