Posted on 05/12/2016 6:13:52 AM PDT by Rockitz
Joe Biden took months to decide he wouldn’t run for president — but he was sold on Elizabeth Warren as his running mate from the start, people familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
And he still thinks the Massachusetts firebrand would be Hillary Clinton’s best choice to replace him as the nation’s No. 2 in January 2017.
Biden, a stalwart Democrat who has veered leftward in recent years — but, as a centrist senator, voted to scuttle the Glass-Steagall prohibitions on banks engaging in speculative investments — favored Warren because he needed a partner to capture the wave of anti-bank, anti-establishment anger raging to his left.
Warren, a freshman senator from Massachusetts, who supports breaking up the big banks and re-imposing 1930s-era Wall Street regulations to prevent another global financial crisis, was Biden’s “only real choice,” according to an official he spoke to at the time.
Biden — who told an interviewer on Tuesday that he considered running for president because he believed he was “the best” person for the job — took his hat out of the ring in late October 2015, citing the stresses on his family following the death of his son Beau.
But he’s recently told associates that Warren would be an equally smart pick for Hillary Clinton, who has been sharply criticized for refusing to publish the transcripts of her high-paid speeches to the elite banking firm of Goldman Sachs.
Biden, a senior Democratic official said, first mentioned Warren as a possible running mate during his earliest strategy sessions with a team of advisers that included friends Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti and Ted Kaufman; Donilon, the person said, was particularly enthusiastic about it.
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Warren is a certified kook. I hope Hillary names her.
It is odd behavior to say this when they have a presumptive nominee...
Hitlery could drop dead or campaign in an orange jump suit with numbers on the back. Biteme and the squaw could pickup the ball and run the wrong way.
Something is up. Trump has a Twitter war with the Fake Indian going on. Why would he even bother with her unless he thought she might be getting into the race.
Crooked Hillary’s campaign so far has been soul-crushing. No passion whatsoever among her “followers”, it is like the Bataan Death March. They are doing it out of duty.
It’s a real possibility that Biden/Warren are in the wings.
I suspect that the Democrat establishment have been waiting for the Crooked One to finish off Bernie so that they can make their moves. But even that is proving difficult.
This insufferable harridan has to be the worst candidate the Dems have ever put up.
Joe Biden took months to decide he wouldn’t run for president — but he was sold on Elizabeth Warren as his running mate from the start,
Dumb and dumber. God help America if this nitwit ever becomes POTUS. Sorry, nitwits.
So what?
Dems are keeping this viable just in case...funny thing is this combo will go down faster then the Clinton ship.
But it's been a year since his son died.
Plugs could just declare that the grieving period is over and “I'm ready to go”.
Do it at the last moment before too much negative stuff comes up publicly, and you know the press would be on his side.
Lizzie Warren is also a multimillionairess, the hypocrite.
“Filthy capitalist dollars, Senator? I thought you progressives never touch the stuff!”
I heard of that movie, never saw it though, wasn’t it called “Dumb and Dumber”
Chickensoup called this one months ago!!
Enough self-promotion.
Clinton won’t make it out of the convention.
Crazy Bernie ain’t going to let that happen. His supporters will riot on the streets if they skip over Crazy Bernie. Mark my words.
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Not if Warren is on the ticket. Same tribe.
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