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Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren asks where bank CEOs stand on customers' ability to join class action suits Labor Department seeks delay of Obama investment adviser rule Obama donors not committing to Biden MORE (D-Mass.)on Saturday pushed her party toward the left.

The potential2020 presidential candidatedeclared in a speech that progressive liberals not only can restore the Democratic Party from its disorderlystate, but that they currently control its direction, The New York Times reported.

If were going to be the people who lead the Democratic Party back from the wilderness and lead our country out of this dark time, then we cant waste energy arguing about whose issue matters more or who in our alliance should be voted off the island, Warren told the crowd at the annualNetroots Nation meeting, which was reportedly received with applause.

We are not a wing of todays Democratic Party. We are the heart and soul of todays Democratic Party, she added.

TheDemocratic Partyisnt going back to the days of welfare reform and the crime bill, Warren said. It is not going to happen.

While Warrendid not explicitly name former President Bill ClintonBill ClintonPenalties assessed by EPA decline under Trump, study finds Bill and Hillary Clinton to take questions at joint Dallas appearance Monica Lewinsky responds to Scaramucci calling New Yorker reporter 'the Linda Tripp of 2017' MORE, she went after the measures passed in his administration that the left wing of the party largely despises, reassuring the crowd not to fear a shift back toward the middle, as Clinton had done in the 1990s.

Warren supported and stumped for Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonJudge orders new search for Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails Chance the Rapper: 'I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump' Bill and Hillary Clinton to take questions at joint Dallas appearance MORE as the Democratic nominee in the 2016 presidential campaign. However, she was one of the last Senate Democrats to announce their endorsement during the bruising primary process she waited until June.

Warren's speech at the conference, which is viewed as a testing ground for prospective presidential candidates, further fuelsbuzz that Warren plans to run for president in 2020.

The Times reported that the Massachusetts lawmaker madelittle attempt to dismiss the bid speculation.

Her speech comes amid divides within the Democratic Party. Warren alsourged the liberal crowd not to push others out of the party's movement.

She made similar comments during a recent interparty dispute over whether Democrats can disagree on their stance onabortion.

"I am strongly pro-choice. I am strongly pro-choice, and I will fight," Warren told The Huffington Post. "But that's not how everyone in the party feels."

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Warren: Liberals will 'lead the Democratic Party back from the wilderness' - The Hill