Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has published an homage to Elizabeth Warren, the progressive champion many on the Left want to see challenge her in the primary, acknowledging Warren’s attempts to exert influence on her campaign platform.
Clinton wrote Warren’s entry for this year’s Time 100 list, the latest development in the uneasy relationship between the longtime Democratic establishment figure and the increasingly powerful populist.
“Elizabeth Warren never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street’s irresponsible risk taking and reforming our financial system is far from finished,” Cinton wrote.
“And she never hesitates to hold powerful people’s feet to the fire: bankers, lobbyists, senior government officials and, yes, even presidential aspirants,” Clinton added, in an oblique reference to Warren’s efforts to pull her to the left.
Since being elected to the Senate in 2012, Warren has crusaded for tighter rules on Wall Street, taking on Republicans and members of her own party with populist rhetoric.
While the Massachusetts Democrat has resisted progressives’ efforts to recruit her for a presidential run, she has in recent weeks laid out an agenda that she has said presidential candidates should embrace.
On Wednesday she sketched out a new set of laws and regulations she recommends for finance. Warren has also mentioned trade, student loans, and the minimum wage as areas in which she’d like to see candidates embrace a progressive agenda, without mentioning Clinton by name.
