Progressive group leader describes why Warren would be better than Sanders

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Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), offered an argument in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM Radio why Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who his group is supporting, would be a more effective president than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Warren, who has trailed Sanders in the Democratic contest so far, argued at Tuesday night's debate in South Carolina that she should be the progressive nominee for Democrats — and not Sanders — because she had a better track record of getting things done.

Green sought to boost that argument in the interview with Zerlina Maxwell on "Signal Boost."

He offered an anecdote about interactions Green and his group had with Sanders in 2015, when Sanders was backing an infrastructure funding proposal but ended up introducing a bill with little political support.

"On Jan. 21, 2015, myself and my co-founder, Stephanie Taylor, and some folks from our legislative team met with Bernie Sanders ... and we showed him some polling that we had done, the Big Ideas Poll, showing that so many big, progressive ideas were popular," Green said.

Green noted that one of the questions in the poll related to infrastructure reform, which led Sanders to inform him that he was introducing a "trillion dollar infrastructure bill" (Rebuild America Act of 2015) the following week.

"After the meeting we begged his office, 'Can you please delay this for a couple weeks? Let us help you lobby for co-sponsors. Let us help you get other grassroots groups on board.' " Green continued.

"But he was insistent. He must introduce his bill on Tuesday. And sure enough, at the press conference he had one co-sponsor, he had one main endorsing group, the engineers," Green said. "That was January 2015 and the entire Congress of 2015 and 2016, there were zero other co-sponsors that got on board and almost no movement around the bill."


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484978-progressive-group-leader-describes-why-warren-would-be-better-than-sanders

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1. WHY DOES HE HATE BERNIE!

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3. Exactly.

[TwilightZone]

2. To me, it was always a no-brainer.

Outside of the die-hards, I don't really understand why anyone would support Sanders over Warren.

She's much more likely to get stuff done based on prior accomplishments. She's much more likely to be able to build a coalition.

She's exceedingly more personable and relatable, which many voters are looking for in a candidate, even if it's not a high priority for us.

I really don't get it.

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5. I am personally not in favor of authoritan styles nt

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4. So much