Vanity Fair – Sensing dissatisfaction from the left wing of the party, Democrats aligned with Hillary Clinton are mounting an extensive effort to burnish the presidential candidate’s populist bona fides—an effort slightly complicated by the fact that two of the first three fund-raisers the campaign is hosting in New York are at the homes of hedge-fund executives.
A number of Clinton allies downplay the idea that Senator Elizabeth Warren—an icon of the left who routinely rips into the nation’s biggest banks on the floor of the Senate—is more progressive than Clinton. In a report in The New York Times, friends and advisers of Clinton paint her as the proto-Warren, highlighting Clinton’s earlier comments about income inequality.
