Warren was spotted at Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Brooklyn last week, too. He offered no advice for how Clinton should fund her campaign, but suggested that she should help Democrats stop the Trans Pacific Partnership from passing in this year’s lame duck session of Congress.
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But it also includes Joe Biden and two of the three on Hillary’s alleged “short list”: Tim Kaine and Julián Castro.
Given the anti-immigrant rhetoric voiced by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Wilson said the Democratic Party may have locked up the Latino vote. “She is clearly an establishment Democrat”.
Asked whether she will vote for Clinton, as former Sanders supporters are being urged to do, Hiltz was firm: “Absolutely not”.
Clinton, assured of her party’s presidential nomination, paired her response to Trump with a populist pitch aimed at white, working class voters who backed Sanders and are now being courted by Trump. She also moved in the direction of embracing his call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
Trump is slamming Clinton during a speech in NY, saying the decisions made by his general election foe at the State Department “spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched”.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., waves at the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s 2015 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference in Washington. While he may not excite liberals, he’s seen as a running mate who could appeal to independents and swing voters in his home state and elsewhere.
Becerra later said that he is not now being vetted as a potential running mate. He has vowed to take his campaign to transform the party to the convention. The Post cited other unnamed sources that insisted Clinton’s campaign was also studying a larger list of possible running mates.
Over two consecutive days, Trump has sought to focus his struggling campaign on Clinton, as Republican leaders have demanded.
“That is a problem for the party”, said Representative Jim Clyburn. That’s a particular liability for Ohio Sen.
“I really don’t have knowledge”, Becerra, of California, said before acknowledging that he has not been notified by the campaign that he is under consideration.
While Warren’s seat would be temporarily filled by an appointee named by the Republican governor of MA, the state would hold a special election for a permanent replacement.
It is the closest he has come to conceding to Hillary Clinton. Even Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson got a chunk of Sanders supporters, with 18 percent of those polled saying they’d vote for the third-party candidate. Cory Booker (New Jersey), a frequent Clinton surrogate, paused to deliver a non-answer.
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Speaking Wednesday at one of his Manhattan hotels, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee says that has “devastated” the American middle class.
