Liz is on the war path to 2020.
Via Politico:
Elizabeth Warren’s stiff resistance to a bipartisan banking deregulation bill is not a surprise to her colleagues. But her tactics are.
She punched directly on Friday at her fellow Democratic senators who backed a bill easing up on regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis — slamming it as a Wall Street giveaway.
The attack escalated a feud among the caucus’ moderate and liberal members that’s simmered all week long and underscores the ideological rift within the party as it tries to claw its way back to power.
Warren sent a fundraising email on Tuesday chastising the 16 Democratic senators who voted to move ahead on the bill for siding with the GOP and “with the big banks.”
During senior staff meetings on Friday, according to two sources, the back-and-forth got so heated that Warren’s camp offered to pass on the small amount of money raised from the Tuesday email to benefit one or more of her moderate Democratic targets.
A third Democratic aide present at the meeting described the conversation about the email as contentious, with Warren’s camp refusing to back down, and the offer to pass on the money as sarcastic.