If No One Challenges Hillary Clinton From The Left, One Progressive Group Will [View all]

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/if-no-one-challenges-hillary-clinton-from-the-left-one-progr



Two years from now, on the eve of the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, it’s possible that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could be running for the nomination without a major opponent to her left.

But even if no serious Clinton challenger in the mold of progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren emerges, a nonprofit group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, or PCCC, is prepared to take up the mantle.

Co-founder Adam Green says plans are already in the works to pressure Clinton from the left on Wall Street reform and Social Security, sending PCCC members to storm her early town hall meetings and using Warren — the Massachusetts freshman senator who is increasingly held up as the hero of the party’s left wing — as the guiding force of their movement.

“Elizabeth Warren is the North Star of where our party should be going and is going,” Green said in a phone interview, citing Warren’s work on student loans, her introduction of a new Glass-Steagall Act earlier this year, and a speech she delivered last week that advocated for the expansion of Social Security.