SAN FRANCISCO — Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued another shot at former Vice President Joe Biden during her remarks to the California Democratic Party on Saturday, saying that some Democrats in Washington won’t deliver the kind of transformational changes she’s been campaigning on.
“Some Democrats in Washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges,’’ said the Massachusetts senator. “If they dream at all, they dream small. Some say if we’d all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses. But our country is in a time of crisis. The time for small ideas is over.”
Warren also appeared to be referencing a campaign stop refrain from Biden, who has claimed that, once Trump is out of office, Republicans will support Democratic legislation.
“The thing that will fundamentally change with Donald Trump out of the White House, not a joke, is you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends,” Biden said in New Hampshire last month.
Warren’s line in San Francisco wasn’t her first swipe at Biden on the 2020 trail. In April, Warren claimed Biden sided with credit card companies in his vote on 2005 bankruptcy legislation.
“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said following a rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”
Warren also spoke Saturday about her plan to deliver universal child care and forgive most student debt through her wealth tax.
“When I lead the Democratic Party, we will be a party of moral clarity, a party of courage, and a party with a backbone,” she said. “The rich and powerful aren’t giving up anything without a fight.”
