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Article snippet: Sen. MORE (D-Mass.) on Saturday pushed her party toward the left. The likely 2020 presidential candidate declared in a speech that progressive liberals have not only restored the Democratic party from a previously disorderly state, but they now control it, The New York Times reported. “If we’re going to be the people who lead the Democratic Party back from the wilderness and lead our country out of this dark time, then we can’t waste energy arguing about whose issue matters more or who in our alliance should be voted off the island,” Warren told the crowd at the annual Netroots Nation meeting, which was reportedly received with applause. “We are not a wing of today’s Democratic Party. We are the heart and soul of today’s Democratic Party,” she added. The Democratic senator took the opportunity to thinly veil her eagerness to move away from Clinton-era policies, according to the report, dismissing the idea the party should cater to the center. “The Democratic party isn’t going back to the days of welfare reform and the crime bill,” Warren said. “It is not going to happen.” While Warren did not explicitly name former President MORE, she went after the measures passed in his administration that the left wing of the party largely despises, reassuring the crowd not to fear a shift back towards the middle as Clinton had done in the 1990s. Warren supported and stumped for MORE as the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election. However she was one of the las... Link to the full article to read more