In December 2014, Clinton’s team began worrying that Warren was reconsidering a presidential run and arranged a meeting between the two principals at Clinton’s home in Washington.Warren came in “aggressive” and “firing on all cylinders” that caught Clinton off-guard, said a Clinton official familiar with the meeting. She pressed Clinton to commit to not appointing Wall Street-friendly people to her administration, as Warren felt Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had done.
That list, the contents of which have not been previously reported, was just the beginning of an intensive two-year campaign by Warren, her staff, and outside allies to push, prod, and shape the would-be Clinton administration -- an effort that also included an informal blacklist of Clinton allies that Warren and outside partners would resist if nominated for jobs in the Clinton administration, which included BlackRock chairman Larry Fink and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
“I think if the outreach hadn’t been done then she might have felt obligated to run,” a Clinton official explained of their approach. As the Clinton transition team fielded ideas from senators in the final months of the campaign, Warren was treated as a “first among equals,” according to a Clinton transition official. Warren’s chief of staff Dan Geldon and Clinton senior staffer Jake Sullivan were in close contact and met repeatedly in the final months of the campaign.
Or as one transition official half-jokingly described the “don’t” personnel: “Anyone who’s ever talked to Larry Summers.” Before becoming Facebook COO, Sandberg had been Summers’ chief of staff when he was treasury secretary during the Clinton administration. He had been her thesis adviser at Harvard as well.
“We were worried,” a Clinton campaign official said. “In retrospect, she could have been a pretty potent candidate in the primary.” Her decision also led Sen. Bernie Sanders to make a run of his own from Clinton’s left which would become more formidable than Warren, Clinton, or even Sanders himself expected.
The same week Schwerin met Geldon, Warren coupled the private push with a public speech at the AFL-CIO that urged Democrats not to take victory laps because the GDP and unemployment numbers looked good. “Despite these cheery numbers, America's middle class is in deep trouble,” she declared. “All of the new money earned in this economy over the past generation—all that growth in the GDP—went to the top.
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)
And we learned it was not nearly enough to wake the Clinton camp up to the political reality of the approaching 2016 election and Warren herself should have run instead of trusting the establishment to do the right thing. Another example of Warren's terrible political instincts.
Did she run? No! Again, as you tried to do with Beto , trying to prop up the sagging campaign of your latest so-called progressive choice over a moderate candidate like Biden, will not work.
Hilary Clinton is a self serving political climbing to money and power over the will of the people. The United States of America is the people, not politicians.
Politico is terrified of Hillary, Biden, Bernie, and Warren teaming up to destroy their dictator
You say 'bulldozed,' others say 'leveraged.' Warren, for good or ill, had power and used it. Why this is newsworthy I don't know, but I could venture a few good guesses.
Warren IS an expert on the economy. It’s not at all surprising Clinton would consult the best.
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