Warren at war with fellow Dems

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Warren also told the Congressional Progressive Caucus in their Friday retreat in Baltimore that watching "some of" other Democrats support loosening financial regulations "felt being a stab within the heart – not in my situation, however for all the homeowners that were cheated as well as the taxpayers who bailed out those banks."

"It is so not easy to deal with the cash and all the lobbying, so faithfully after we fight and lose," Warren told fellow liberals. "But, yeah, it’s worse when each of our teammates don’t even appear for your fight."

But some moderate Democratic senators who argue marketplace will boost smaller and community banks felt a sting of their from Warren’s attacks. They also get lucky and include seven of your caucus’ 10 incumbents up for reelection in states Mr . trump won in 2016.

One of them, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, openly acknowledged that Warren "sure is" mad over it.

Warren "has her perspective and her viewpoint, nevertheless the truth will prevail," Heitkamp told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. "So you know, we are going to spend lots of time correcting the myths, correcting the misstatements about" the legislation to roll back some aspects of the Dodd-Frank law.

Of course, coming to odds with Warren is probably not bad politics for most at-risk senators from conservative states. But behind the scenes, aides to Democrats who supported the check were deeply frustrated.

One described Warren’s fundraising email as "outrageous." Another wrote within a email the fact that gambit was "a large message for you exactly the same week she designed a big fuss of cutting checks to everyone 50 state parties. So, you choose Dems to win overall 50 states, within the condition that Senators from North Dakota and Montana concur with the Senior Senator from Massachusetts on everything, continuously?"

Other Democrats worry the internecine war will undermine the party prior to 2018 and 2020 elections.

"This is certainly Republicans’ dream, which is to see Democrats work round the aisle and Customer advocates kill them for doing it," said a 3rd Democratic aide whose boss is frustrated with Warren.

Warren, affiliated with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership team, extended an olive branch of sorts on Friday by sending out another fundraising email that praised the five Democrats up for reelection who voted about the banking bill.

The email’s title: "These five senators stood about Wall Street." 5 Democrats whom Warren praised are Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; and Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith of Minnesota.

Warren isn’t the first 2020 presidential hopeful to tar her colleagues as beholden to corporate interests during this Congress. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who also sits in Schumer’s leadership circle, pointedly blasted 13 Democrats a year ago for coziness with the pharmaceutical industry as soon as they voted against an amendment he pitched on drug importation from Canada.

Seven of your 13 Democrats Sanders hit because of their drug importation vote are also supporting the banking bill: Heitkamp; Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado; Mark Warner of Virginia; Jon Tester of Montana; Joe Donnelly of Indiana; and Chris Coons and Tom Carper of Delaware.

The other Democrats who courted Warren’s ire by supporting the banking bill were Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia; Bill Nelson of Florida; Claire McCaskill of Missouri; Joe Manchin of West Virginia; Doug Jones of Alabama; Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters of Michigan; and Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of the latest Hampshire.

Some of the senators regularly tout their independence from party leaders and liberal activists in their pitches for reelection.

A Warren spokeswoman declined to express the money generated through the Tuesday fundraising pitch and declined to discuss the tense exchange at Friday’s staff meeting.

Manchin’s spokesman, Jonathan Kott, dismissed Warren’s criticism as misguided.

"Senator Manchin believes this bill provides regulatory relief to your community banks in West Virginia so that [they] starting investing capital back in Main Street," Kott said by email.