Politics

Lefties Weaponize Elizabeth Warren

Trade Foe?

Progressives in Oregon have brought in the progressive champion to star in a mailer slamming their state’s senior senator over a trade treaty—and Warren’s office says she had no idea.

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A progressive group hoping to pressure Democrats on trade has found an unwitting weapon: Elizabeth Warren.

A mailer sent to 70,000 households by the left-leaning Working Families Party in Oregon uses the Massachusetts senator’s photograph and text from an op-ed she wrote to slam Ron Wyden, the state’s senior senator.

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