What is on with Gillibrand - Now a co-sponsor to Warren's Glass Steagal !

[Mr. Morden]

In a primary race that lacks a single strong frontrunner, there's going to be a lot of pandering to the base.  It happened during the last few Republican presidential primaries (none of the last three GOP races had a strong frontrunner in the sense that Bush 2000 or even Dole 1996 were strong frontrunners), and it'll probably happen with the Dems now in 2020.

Gillibrand has simply gotten out front on several of these issues, but she's not going to be the only one.  Though I'd be curious to know how many of these things are actually reversals for her.  She mentioned in that NY Mag story that she's actually supported single payer health care for a long time now.

[Mr. Morden]

She was always a liberal. She lied about being a Blue Dog to get elected from Upstate New York.

Regardless, I don't think she'd be co-sponsoring virtually every single progressive bill in the Senate right now, or voting against more Trump nominees than anyone else if she wasn't running for president.  There are other liberals in the Senate too, and they're not all co-sponsoring every one of these bills.