Why Elizabeth Warren Would Have More Clout As Hillary Clinton’s VP

[RandySF]

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As Hillary Clinton moves closer to officially clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, the next phase of the competition has already begun: speculation about her running mate.

A Boston Globe article kicked off the latest round on Thursday by floating the possibility of an all-female ticket — specifically one filled out by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

With the Clintons, people are quick to assume everything is calculated. Appearances aside, the Clinton campaign did not choose a Boston paper to float a Warren trial balloon. Campaign chairman John Podesta just answered a question from a Globe reporter after the most recent debate.

But the speculation around Warren is not baseless. “Real folks are pushing Warren. I’m into it,” said one member of Clinton’s inner circle. And if Warren needs them, she has friends inside the campaign, including its CFO Gary Gensler, a leading Wall Street reformer who is close to Warren, and campaign strategist Mandy Grunwald, who helped run Warren’s 2012 Senate bid and remains close to the senator.

Whether Clinton would choose her, though, is impossible to know yet. It would solve some obvious problems with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, but would create new ones with the Wall Street wing — and give her headaches she might rather avoid. And at least until a special election could be called in Massachusetts, it would take Warren out of the Senate.

But among progressives, that’s all beside the point: There is a firmly held belief that even if the job were offered to Warren, she would decline it, aware that her true power lies in operating from within the Senate.

Don’t buy it. There is a strong case to be made that Warren could significantly expand her ability to advance the issues she cares about by taking the VP slot.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-vice-president-hillary-clinton_us_571a8129e4b0d912d5fea0e8

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I really like her in the Senate, where she belongs.

She would be the counter-weight to Hillary's favoritism towards them.

The bankers (and Wall Street, for that matter) are pretty well intimidated by her thinking and the way she regards them.

She needs to stay in the Senate, for the good of the country.

[Jitter65]

2. More than Bloomberg? nt

[Jitter65]

3. My list of VPs for HRC

Bloomberg
Rendell
Warren
O'Malley

[Kelvin Mace]

5. Rahm Emmanuel

DWS
Cuomo

[JonLeibowitz]

8. Rendell said he would support bloomberg as an indy if sanders were the nominee....

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Not going to happen

[reformist2]

6. Nice try. But she won't do it.

[ViseGrip]

7. Hillary would have her in a strangahold! Sec of Treasury? Head of the FED?

Or remaining one of 100 US senators?


VP....that only helps Hillary, not Liz and not the people.

[Codeine]

13. "A strangahold"?

What the hell is that?

[larkrake]

9. I doubt she wants to be associated with hillary

[pressbox69]

10. Don't think America will vote in two woman on the same ticket, not just yet.

Julian Castro perhaps.

[SheilaT]

11. Elizabeth Warren is not very close to Hillary Clinton in policy matters.

And a has already been pointed out, two women on the ticket is not a very good idea.

[The Second Stone]

12. I love Warren as a Senator. And I would miss her in the Senate

She would make an ideal Vice President. Her voice in the Senate is a tremendous asset. She is the smartest member of the Senate, and a great representative of the people.

[Autumn]

14. Nonsense. And Warren wouldn't run with Clinton.

[azurnoir]

15. She would very effectively be silenced when it comes to policy making