- For the first time in months, @ BernieSanders is back in second place in the @ RealClearNews average of recent polls. This is a significant improvement in position for Sanders, who has been rising steadily in recent weeks.
Obama's position on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has also been antagonistic, according to Politico.
"Back in early 2015, when Warren was considering running for president and started to excite progressives, Obama said privately that if Democrats rallied around her as their nominee it would be a repudiation of hima clear sign that his economic decisions after the Great Recession had been seen as inadequate," Politico reported. "There are very few former senior Obama officials in Warren's campaign."
David Dayen, executive editor for The American Prospect, wrote last week that Obama's attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party "are music to the ears of the wealthy and powerful."
"This defense of the reigning economic order, originating with the donor class and media allies, with its effective abandonment of the vulnerable and disenfranchised, with nothing for those struggling to make it in a rigged economy, is a recipe for social and political unrest," Dayen wrote. "From lofty heights, Obama has now become a dampener of hope, a barrier to change, and a threat to progress."
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