Page 29 - Progressive Wing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Case. there was always in past campaigns, if you were a candidate, you were trying to figure out how you could avoid being called a panderer. and today, we don't think about that. >> i think that that is -- i think that what's really happening is there are a large number of candidates who are going for a small number of voters in the democratic field. so i think there already a lot of people who think that if they are the one that is going further left, they will capture the far left of the party or the more progressive wing of the party. and then you have biden, right, who feels that he needs...

14 candidates. >> she wasn't terribly well known, but she was very catching in democratic circles which gave her access to a great deal of money. >> but all of that money didn't translate into popularity with members of the party's progressive wing, who attacked pelosi as a rich political insider. >> how can she relate to people like me, single parent, working mother? >> it foreshadowed the political lightening rod she would become years down the road. >> it was a contentious primary and it was a hard race for nancy. >> she's never had a payroll or had to worry about it. >> i don't think you h...

Hill this morning over impeachment with nancy pelosi trying to hold back the firebrands and increasing calls for at least the start of impeachment hearings. kelly o'donnell, first to you. you were staked out there, as people were going in. it seemed to me that many more mainstream democrats, to the just the more progressive wing, not just the freshman were now saying, it's time. >> there has been a bubbling up, andrea, with more people willing to talk about it. but at the same time, there was also a certain calmness that seemed to take hold during the meeting, where as members left, they were ...

Pushing other nominees further left. biden being a moderate is a strength and seen as a bit of a weakness from some of the more progressive wing of the party and some people-- i have some super, super progressive friends saying if you're not 100% pro choice in all instances and 100%, i'm not going to vote for you. and we might have the same situation in 2020? i'm looking you were mentioning unions, for example, and you touched on it as well. that union vote still went to hillary clinton, but didn't go as much for the democrats as much as in elections past. i'm wondering, that's the coalition t...

>> harris: the next question i would ask the democrats, and i will throw it in your direction -- not the represent all of them, but what about impeachment? and those members within your potable party who said, even if alex may be right and there's no conspiracy or obstruction of justice, only to those are actually crime. democrats will still try to impeach, on what grounds? >> the first ground is, as alex said, there was a lot of smoke and a lot of bad behavior. second, in their terms, they have the numbers. i'm speaking about those on the left of the party, the so-called progressive wing who ...