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Article snippet: House progressives are flexing their muscles after a midterm election that put Democrats in power and is expected to trigger a series of battles within the caucus between the left and center over what issues to prioritize going forward. “We have 20 new people that we endorsed elected to Congress, and there’s still a few more that are coming,” Rep. MORE (D-Wis.), the co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), said Monday at a press conference presenting the group’s new members. Pocan added that the CPC will have more than 90 members in the next Congress, making it the “largest value-based caucus” on the Hill. Pocan made the remarks from the AFL-CIO’s headquarters in Washington a day before most lawmakers are set to return to Washington. He was backed by more than a dozen incoming lawmakers in the next freshman class, including Rep.-elects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the first Somali-American elected to Congress. The show of force is targeted as much at moderate Democrats and party leadership as it is at MORE and his Republican allies. One of the biggest challenges for the new Democratic caucus will be balancing the demands of liberals and centrists in the conference. While the new class includes a number of new liberals, it also includes more moderate Democrats elected in districts that Republicans will seek to win back in 2020. Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley and Omar are not in districts consider... Link to the full article to read more