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Elizabeth Warren Joins California Democrats in Opposing Trade Deal

The annual convention of the largest state party reveals rifts in the Democratic base.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Roosevelt Institute event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Roosevelt Institute event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
By
James Nash

For a few hours on Saturday morning, a convention center near Disneyland became the hub of opposition to President Barack Obama's authority to negotiate an Asia-Pacific trade deal.

Outside California's Anaheim Convention Center, union members chanted slogans against the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership and unfurled a banner reading: “Tell Congress to support American trade. Not unfair trade.” Inside, Senator Elizabeth Warren rallied California Democratic Party activists with a speech that criticized the pact as a gift to corporations.