Elizabeth Warren reportedly wants to make sure there's no competing power base within the Democratic Party if she's elected

Elizabeth Warren.
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You might have heard, but there are some tensions boiling within the Democratic Party right now, as the establishment center and progressive left wing have struggled to see eye to eye on a number of issues. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to make sure that doesn't continue if she's elected president next year.

The New York Times reports that Warren, who generally espouses progressive views that often lean a little further to the left from the mainstream Democratic Party, is working overtime to bring the party's insiders over to her side and convince them her ideas aren't too fringe to unseat President Trump in the general election.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.