I believe Hill has been letting this drip-drip-drip out into the public arena. She is applying her thumb to his jugular; if he picks her to be his running mate this all goes away. If not, a little more gets released until he is ready to do whatever it takes to make it stop. Thats making her his VP.
As with most things, the cover-up is usually worse than the thing its covering up. But its enough to give her some leverage, I think.
If she pushes him out altogether, she faces a backlash. If she's the vp, that all goes away. And she can let tomorrow take care of tomorrow.
“If she’s the vp, that all goes away.”
If she really wanted to be his VEEP, she wouldn’t need to release so much about him to the public. Not only that, she probably concluded, like many of us, that he’ll likely lose.
I think she has high confidence in her husband to get her elected. Bill Clinton is better at triangulation than in appealing to the far left. The Clintons probably knew all along that winning the nomination would be tougher than the election. It’s really hard to assure the DNC that you’re left-wing enough and still have a chance of winning the election later.