Clinton camp courts progressive groups

Advisers to Hillary Clinton and a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) are planning a meeting, according to the group, which is an enthusiastic backer of the ideas of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Emails obtained by The Hill in September showed the dissatisfaction with Clinton among many liberal activists, and the meeting would be a chance for the leftist group to make its voice heard to the Clinton camp. 

{mosads}PCCC co-founder Adam Green told MSNBC, which first reported the plans for the meeting, that the group talked to Clinton’s camp and a meeting is coming “very soon.”

He did not say which advisers he is meeting with. He also encouraged other liberal groups to get involved, telling MSNBC, “Individual meetings are useful, but progressive movement-wide meetings would be really smart for her.”

Neil Sroka, spokesman for a different liberal group, Democracy For America, said there had not been “aggressive outreach” from the Clinton camp but left open the possibility of a meeting. 

Any meeting, he said, would focus on the question, “Are you going to focus on this fundamental crisis that exists in this country on income inequality?”

Clinton is planning a listening tour in the coming weeks of business, unions and others, according to The New York Times. 

The PCCC and other liberal groups could encourage Clinton to increase her populist messaging, similar to Warren.

“Hillary Clinton may be realizing that Elizabeth Warren’s economic populist positions are the path to electoral success in 2016,” PCCC’s Green said in a statement after Clinton praised Warren at an event in Boston last month. “Both in the primary and general election.”