Michele Bachmann jabs at Elizabeth Warren: ‘She’s no populist’

Retiring House Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said in an interview Friday with Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim that Republicans have nothing to fear from the rise of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her views on economic inequality.

The New Yorker magazine this week called Republican upstart David Brat “the Elizabeth Warren of the right” after his surprising defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the Virginia Republican primary.

Bachmann scoffed at the comparison. Brat, she said, is much better than that.

“I don’t see Elizabeth Warren as someone Republicans have to worry about, not at all,” Bachmann told Huffington Post. “Elizabeth Warren, after all, was a major advocate of Dodd-Frank.”

The 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and sought to put in place market protections to prevent another financial crash like 2008.

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