"Tensions With Elizabeth Warren Camp..."

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Tensions With Elizabeth Warren Camp Could Loom Over Hillary Clinton Campaign
4/2/15

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - The race for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is turning into a battle of ideas between a woman who has not yet said she is running and another who insists she won't.

Hillary Clinton is expected to launch her White House bid later this month, while Elizabeth Warren, the senator known for her fiery anti-Wall Street rhetoric, repeated this week that she is not seeking the Democratic nomination.

But she and her supporters have vowed to make sure that populist economic ideas feature prominently on Clinton's agenda should the former secretary of state be the party's nominee.

Warren's backers are already fanning out in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire to push Clinton to shift toward economic populism and away from the pro-business policies of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Activists told Reuters they plan to show up at town halls and rallies to publicly call on Clinton to adopt policies such as breaking up big banks and expanding the Social Security retirement program.

"What we are trying to do is incentivize Hillary Clinton and anyone else who may chose to run for president to campaign on many of the economic populist issues that Elizabeth Warren and others have championed," said Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a grassroots pro-Warren group.

Warren vowed on MSNBC on Wednesday to press Clinton - and any other candidates - to tackle issues such as student loan affordability and stricter oversight of Wall Street.

"I'm going to push everybody. Do I not look like I'm going to push?" said Warren, whose stark critiques of big business have endeared her to her party's left wing.

But comments like that rile Clinton supporters, who bristle at the notion that the former first lady needs to hew to Warren's message in order to prove her populist credentials....

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/02/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton_n_6991314.html