Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE is seizing on the scandal at Wells Fargo to go after Wall Street, with Democrats adding a chorus of denunciations ahead of the general elections.

Reports revealed that thousands of employees at the bank potentially opened millions of fake accounts to boost their performance, spurring outrage on Capitol Hill and a dramatic hearing Tuesday with Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf.

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Ahead of Strumpf’s testimony, the Democratic presidential nominee published an open letter to the millions of Americans with accounts at Wells Fargo in which she blasted the bank’s actions and touted her own plan for overseeing the financial sector.

“There is simply no place for this kind of outrageous behavior in America,” she wrote. “I have a plan to address it.”

Drawing a contrast with Republicans, Clinton vowed to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and crack down on bank executives who oversee wrongdoing.

“If any bank can’t be managed effectively, it should be broken up,” she said.

Clinton spent much of the Democratic primary race fighting off accusations she is in the pocket of Wall Street. Her main competitor for the nomination, Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee Trump campaign plays up Biden's skills ahead of Cleveland debate: 'He's actually quite good' Young voters backing Biden by 2:1 margin: poll MORE, repeatedly made the case that Clinton is too close to financial interests, pointing to the millions of dollars Clinton received for private speeches at companies including Goldman Sachs.

But with Sanders and the Democratic Party now fully behind her candidacy, Clinton is trying to claim a position as the candidate who will be tough on the financial sector.

The positioning is tricky, as her opponent, Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE, has taken a tougher line on Wall Street than other recent GOP nominees.

Trump’s campaign pushed for last-minute language to be added to the official GOP platform calling for a return of the Glass-Steagall Act. That law, most of which was repealed in 1999 under then-President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonGOP brushes back charges of hypocrisy in Supreme Court fight Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates MORE, Hillary Clinton’s husband, once separated commercial and investment banking, and its return has become a cause célèbre of the left.

But Trump has yet to put forward his own financial regulation plan short of calling the Dodd-Frank financial reform law a disaster that should be dismantled. He has yet to comment on the Wells Fargo scandal, instead focusing on national security and terrorism.

When regulators announced earlier this month they were levying record fines on Wells Fargo for its actions, Democrats were eager to pounce on the news to tout the work of those agencies. In particular, Democrats from Clinton on down have praised the work of the CFPB, which led the investigation and fined the bank $100 million — its largest ever.

Clinton emphasized the agency’s work in her letter and also the efforts by Republicans to curb the bureau, which they have opposed since its creation.

“Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and Wall Street lobbyists are desperate to dismantle this effective agency, which is dedicated solely to protecting consumers from unfair and deceptive practices,” she said. “I won’t let them put the CFPB under their thumb.”

A bill supported by House Republicans would replace the CFPB director with a bipartisan commission and subject its budget to appropriations — moves CFPB backers argue will weaken the agency.

Clinton’s letter came as Stumpf, the Wells Fargo chief executive, was hauled before a congressional committee Tuesday to answer for the bank’s behavior. There, he faced aggressive questions from members of both parties. The lawmakers expressed disbelief that the misbehavior could have gone on for years, with thousands of employees involved, without the bank’s implicit or explicit blessing.

But Democrats were the most scathing in their criticism. They frequently accused Stumpf of creating a culture that encouraged reckless behavior to boost the bank’s stock price while also accusing him of not taking personal responsibility for the problems. As a result of the government investigation, 5,300 Wells Fargo employees were fired.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenJudd Gregg: The Kamala threat — the Californiaization of America GOP set to release controversial Biden report Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? MORE (D-Mass.) — who has endorsed Clinton and campaigned with her on the trail — accused Stumpf of “gutless leadership.”

“When it all blew up, you kept your job, you kept your multimillion-dollar bonuses,” she said. “You should resign. You should give back the money. And you should be criminally investigated by both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.”

Trump’s standard response to Clinton’s claims of being tough on Wall Street is to tell voters to follow the money. He points out that Clinton has raised significantly more funds from the financial sector than he has.

Clinton has raised $6.4 million from the securities and investment industry this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that number jumps to $47.5 million when outside groups supporting her candidacy are taken into consideration.

By comparison, Donald Trump’s campaign has taken in $486,755 from those industries, while outside groups supporting his candidacy have raised just $16,000 more.

Still, The Wall Street Journal determined earlier this month that Clinton was raising more money than Trump across all industries, not just Wall Street.