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    Elizabeth Warren used bare-knuckle tactics to take down an Obama nominee

    by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - In 2014, two years after she was first elected to the Senate, Elizabeth Warren took on President Barack Obama in an unlikely fight that cemented her status as a leader of the Democratic Party's progressive wing.

    The Massachusetts Democrat turned a little-known nominee for an obscure Treasury Department job into a poster child for Wall Street's controversial ties to Democrats.

    Warren won - stopping Antonio Weiss, the former head of investment banking for the financial advisory firm Lazard, from becoming undersecretary for domestic finance.

    It was an early sign of Warren's ability to galvanize liberals, much as she's doing in the 2020 presidential race, by stoking long-simmering intraparty battles. Warren and Obama repeatedly clashed over policy, tactics and personnel, boosting her profile but drawing accusations of grandstanding and rigidity.

    "President Obama was the unquestioned

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