There were 13 chairs lined up on stage behind Hillary Clinton’s podium here Monday night, one for each Democratic woman in the Senate – except one.
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The evening fundraising event on Capitol Hill brought in a chunk of campaign cash ahead of an often hard fund-raising month in December.
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein emailed her aide, Capricia Marshall, offering to send Clinton copies of any movies she wanted to watch while recuperating. Clinton told a crowd packed with members of the Laborers International Union and Carpenters Union that, as president, she would boost federal infrastructure investment by $250 billion over the next five years to “bankroll upgrades to roads, bridges, airports and public transit”. She could chose to withhold her blessing altogether until there’s a clear nominee.
Warren’s office declined to comment.
Then in September 2012, she hit two more.
“I don’t have to tell you what a sorry state we’re in”, she said in Boston. All 14 Democratic women senators, except Sen. Instead, the statement said that 13 Senators would be endorsing Clinton.
It was unclear what that figure referred to.
The “Women for Hillary” endorsement event will feature remarks from the rest of the Democratic women in the Senate: Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Barbara Boxer of California, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Dianne Feinstein of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Patty Murray of Washington, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Debbie Stabenow of MI. Despite these concerns, she remains far ahead of Sanders among Democratic voters, though, with a lead of over 20 points in several recent national polls.
However, there was at least one exception.
It’s the correlation between those Clinton spent quality time with at Foggy Bottom and those who pony up for the foundation, or a costly speech by Bill Clinton, or some big donations to Hillary’s 2016 campaign – sometimes all three.
Clinton and Vermont Sen. She went on to praise the “strong soldiers and fighters in pursuit of that behind me”.
Mrs. Clinton, who has placed women’s rights at the forefront of her campaign, took the opportunity attack her Republican rivals on that issue.
Monday’s release is the seventh in a gradual process to make public all the messages that Clinton says were work-related. “She’s not endorsed anyone, nor has she given a timeline for when she might or said with great precision what she’s going to base that decision on”.
Warren was among a large group of female senators who urged Clinton to run for president in a private letter sent in 2013. But with Sanders in the race championing key planks of her economic agenda, Warren has assumed a role above the fray, pushing the candidates to abide by that platform.
Other Republicans pounced on the e-mail as evidence that Clinton was using her time as secretary of state as a political steppingstone for a future job.
But, as CNN notes, the two differ on the minimum wage.
Warren counts some of the country’s most committed grassroots Democrats among her fans.
Despite lower marks than Sanders for handling the economy, Clinton has the support of 51 percent of likely caucus participants, with 42 percent for Sanders in the latest Quinnipiac poll released last week. Conversely, the Clintons have long eyed Warren as a political threat.
“He’s known her and admired her since she was a mere Harvard professor”.
No one, however, made any mention of Warren’s absence during the program.
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The FBI still has an open investigation into the handling and security of Clinton’s private email server and while it says it is not targeting Clinton directly, the outcome of that investigation certainly has the potential to affect her run for the White House.
