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to say to whom, in order to win votes. But it has nothing to do with how
they plan to function when they get into office.
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Hillary's Progressive Balancing Act: Envisioning Bill's Potential White
House Role and Reaching out to Sanders Voters
By Sophia Tesfaye [1] / Salon [2]
May 17, 2016
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Hillary Clinton finds herself campaigning in Kentucky after Donald Trump has
already clinched the Republican presidential nomination, and as she fights
to end Bernie Sanders' 19 state winning streak in a state that last voted
for a Democratic president when her husband narrowly won the state during
his reelection bid, her campaign is attempting a delicate balancing act to
win over skeptical progressives while promising a return to a more moderate
Clinton economic agenda.
"Hillary Clinton is considering a running mate who could make a direct
appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, bridging a generational and
political divide," USA Today [3] reported Monday:
Clinton's chief requirements include a candidate's resume and a fighter
capable of hand-to-hand combat with Trump. The campaign's vetting also
prioritizes demographics over someone from a key swing state as she seeks to
unify the Democratic voting base, said the individuals coordinating with the
campaign, who were not authorized to speak on the record about early
deliberations.
[.]
A [Elizabeth] Warren pick would leave unattended a gaping gender gap between
her and Trump. But according to one source close to the campaign, officials
believe she can build a winning coalition by rallying blacks, Hispanics,
older women-who already support her-along with younger women, whom Warren
could bring into the fold. The source was not permitted to speak on the
record about strategy.
According to top Clinton surrogate Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill,
however, the calculus on picking a progressive running mate could change if
Sanders agrees to aggressively campaign for Clinton-suggesting that
Clinton's commitment to a more populist approach may be more about
campaigning then governing. "It's why you see the absolute hands-off respect
to what Bernie has accomplished," McCaskill, who backed then-senator Barack
Obama over Clinton in the 2008 primary, explained. "At the point in time
that she is nominated, which I believe she will be, this will really turn on
Bernie and how Bernie handles it."
While her campaign has remained rather tight-lipped about specific potential
running mates, on the campaign trail, the candidate has begun to give more
details on her vision for her husband's role in the White House.
"The economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House," she
reportedly told hundreds of supporters in Kentucky over the weekend. "My
husband, who I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because,
you know, he knows how to do it, and especially in places like coal country
and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left
out."
"When my husband was president, incomes rose for everybody," she said in
Louisville on Sunday morning.
The former president was tasked with making his own direct appeal to
low-income white working class voters who have repeatedly rejected Clinton
in favor of Sanders in many states disproportionately impacted by job
losses, in part because of Clinton-era trade deals.
"All I'm telling you is, I volunteer that if Hillary got elected president,
I would like to be tasked with the responsibility to take you along for the
ride to America's future," Bill Clinton told voters in Prestonsburg, the
heart of Kentucky's coal country, last week.
Of course, federal law bars spouses from serving in a president's cabinet-so
even if popular progressive Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren isn't
ultimately tapped to be Clinton's running mate, she won't be competing with
Bill for the role of Treasury Secretary.
Sophia Tesfaye is the Deputy Politics Editor at Salon.
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House Role and Reaching out to Sanders Voters
By Sophia Tesfaye [1] / Salon [2]
May 17, 2016
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Hillary Clinton finds herself campaigning in Kentucky after Donald Trump has
already clinched the Republican presidential nomination, and as she fights
to end Bernie Sanders' 19 state winning streak in a state that last voted
for a Democratic president when her husband narrowly won the state during
his reelection bid, her campaign is attempting a delicate balancing act to
win over skeptical progressives while promising a return to a more moderate
Clinton economic agenda.
"Hillary Clinton is considering a running mate who could make a direct
appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, bridging a generational and
political divide," USA Today [3] reported Monday:
Clinton's chief requirements include a candidate's resume and a fighter
capable of hand-to-hand combat with Trump. The campaign's vetting also
prioritizes demographics over someone from a key swing state as she seeks to
unify the Democratic voting base, said the individuals coordinating with the
campaign, who were not authorized to speak on the record about early
deliberations.
[.]
A [Elizabeth] Warren pick would leave unattended a gaping gender gap between
her and Trump. But according to one source close to the campaign, officials
believe she can build a winning coalition by rallying blacks, Hispanics,
older women-who already support her-along with younger women, whom Warren
could bring into the fold. The source was not permitted to speak on the
record about strategy.
According to top Clinton surrogate Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill,
however, the calculus on picking a progressive running mate could change if
Sanders agrees to aggressively campaign for Clinton-suggesting that
Clinton's commitment to a more populist approach may be more about
campaigning then governing. "It's why you see the absolute hands-off respect
to what Bernie has accomplished," McCaskill, who backed then-senator Barack
Obama over Clinton in the 2008 primary, explained. "At the point in time
that she is nominated, which I believe she will be, this will really turn on
Bernie and how Bernie handles it."
While her campaign has remained rather tight-lipped about specific potential
running mates, on the campaign trail, the candidate has begun to give more
details on her vision for her husband's role in the White House.
"The economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House," she
reportedly told hundreds of supporters in Kentucky over the weekend. "My
husband, who I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because,
you know, he knows how to do it, and especially in places like coal country
and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left
out."
"When my husband was president, incomes rose for everybody," she said in
Louisville on Sunday morning.
The former president was tasked with making his own direct appeal to
low-income white working class voters who have repeatedly rejected Clinton
in favor of Sanders in many states disproportionately impacted by job
losses, in part because of Clinton-era trade deals.
"All I'm telling you is, I volunteer that if Hillary got elected president,
I would like to be tasked with the responsibility to take you along for the
ride to America's future," Bill Clinton told voters in Prestonsburg, the
heart of Kentucky's coal country, last week.
Of course, federal law bars spouses from serving in a president's cabinet-so
even if popular progressive Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren isn't
ultimately tapped to be Clinton's running mate, she won't be competing with
Bill for the role of Treasury Secretary.
Sophia Tesfaye is the Deputy Politics Editor at Salon.
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