In 2012 - because of persistence of many of you in this room – 800,000 young men and women were protected from deportation.īecause of DACA, DREAMers, who are as American as you and me, were promised a chance. The fights that we fight for – they matter.
But, she added, “we’re not going back to the days when a Democrat who wanted to run for a seat in Washington first had to grovel on Wall Street.”īelow is a transcript of Warren’s prepared remarks, sent in advance by her staff.īefore I begin, I would like to say a word about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – DACA – that was just discussed. Warren cited, and then mocked, a column by former Hillary Clinton adviser Mark Penn in the New York Times arguing that Democrats should “move back to the center.”Ĭentrist want Democrats to “Give up, keep your heads down, be realistic, act like a grown-up, keep doing the same old same old,” Warren said. “We’re not going back to the days when universal health care was something Democrats talked about on the campaign trail, but were too chicken to fight for after they got elected.” “We’re not going back to the days of being lukewarm on choice,” Warren told a crowd of about 3,000 people at Netroots Nation.
Two days after a new Democratic-aligned superPAC called New Democracy formed to push back against the party’s ascendant left wing, Warren argued that Democrats would not be “going back to the days of welfare reform and the crime bill.” Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took aim at centrist Democrats on Saturday in front of the one of the largest annual gatherings of progressives in the country.
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