Female Senators Privately Urging Senator Warren To Formally Endorse H Clinton For President

[DhhD]

Female Democratic senators are privately urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren to formally endorse Hillary Clinton for president.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/268161-female-senators-urge-warren-back-hillary

The lobbying campaign comes as the Democratic race between Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is heating up going into the New Hampshire primary next week.

A group of Democratic ­senators is taking a bus tour of New Hampshire this weekend to stump for Clinton, and they want the liberal Massachusetts powerhouse to get on board. Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in the Iowa caucuses earlier this week, but the Vermont senator is a heavy favorite to win New Hampshire.
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H.R. Minority Leader D-Nancy Pelosi has not endorsed Hillary Clinton. California Primary will be the last one before the General Election.


These lawmakers may be burning the VP bridge.

[6chars]

1. this would be huge

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Genital-based politics?

I'm pretty certain Warren won't sign on to that.

[ejbr]

3. Senator Warren

does appear to be in a tight spot; she signed the letter urging Hillary to run and now won't endorse her? I get that the two things are different, but it is sort of leaving her out to dry. The pressure Elizabeth must be feeling must be immense. They probably pressured her to sign the letter too if she is not getting with the program now.

But how does she stay on message AND endorse Hillary?

[Nanjeanne]

17. She signed that letter way before Sanders was in

What's wrong with wanting a woman to run and then realizing that that woman is a lousy candidate after all?

[liberal_at_heart]

18. But it's not like Warren is ignorant of Hillary's voting record. She has criticized her

for past votes such as the bankruptcy bill vote.

[ejbr]

19. There's nothing wrong with it,

except none of the other women share her view. I just think she must be getting it from all sides, but as I said, she has her own "brand" to consider and if that brand is closer to Bernie's, then she should know what to do.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Nothing's working? SEND IN THE NUNS!

[DhhD]

5. Signing a letter saying its your right to run for President of the United States is in no way

a signature of intent to support one Democrat over another. At the time Warren signed the letter, Warren and Clinton were both still considering the same thing; a possible run for President of the United States.

[aaaaaa5a]

6. She secretly wants to endorse Sanders

I think everyone knows it. IMHO, there are 3 possibilities

1- She has endorsed Sanders and they are just waiting for the right time to go public.


2- She has not endorsed Sanders and is still waiting to see if Sanders is viable.


3- She wants to endorse Sanders but believes it would be a waste of political ammo, so she has elected to stay silent.

Clearly, she is not with Hillary. She won't be with Hillary until/when/if she becomes the nominee.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Nice. I think she privately endorses SBS, waits for his viability, while protecting her capital.

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If HRC wins the nomination, she will support her.


I feel that she might be setting herself up as a VP pick to set the stage for a 2020 Warren Presidency.


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[Bluenorthwest]

7. 16 Democratic women hold Senate Seats today, many of them are moderates and Free Trade advocates

extremely unlikely to endorse anyone with Bernie's positions. Example, Feinstein, Murray, Cantwell all voted yes on NAFTA, CAFTA and Fast Track for TPP. That group also contains Senators who were among the last Democrats to stop opposing LGBT rights, 3 of the final 10 holdouts the last Democrats to oppose equal rights for LGBT, Hagen, Heitkamp and Landreiu.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. And Amy Klobuchar's weathervane spins even faster than Hillary's.

Klobuchar is for whatever seems to be popular and noncontroversial. She sponsors a lot of feel-good legislation but ducks behind the battlements when things get contentious. She goes with the flow.

[cali]

16. That is a very good observation

[artislife]

23. As a Washingtonian, I am perplexed at whom my support will go to

In the future when Maria and Patty go up for election again.

They are such a mixed bag. Some good but some bad.

[Schema Thing]

9. That would be a good way to destroy her credibility

Advocate passionately for things that are 100% in line with Bernie's philosophy, make comments to remind people in the current political season that those are your positions too... and then endorse someone whose walk and talk you've been tacitly criticizing.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. +1

[no_hypocrisy]

10. My guess is that Warren will sit this one out, without endorsing anyone but the nominee.

She doesn't seem particularly political and she endorses issues and causes, not candidates.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. If Sanders gains traction, she will be his VP pick, setting stage for her 2020 Presidential run. nt

[Vinca]

15. That's what I think, too.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. From 100% accurate friends on the ground, HRC lost the Northeast. MA is falling, with CT buckling.

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Once you get outside of the metro-Boston area, she is having difficulites in Mass. Western MA is suffering.

Maine and Rhode Island have already fallen, once you get a few miles away from the waterfront and marinas.


Connecticut seems to be holding out, especially close to NYC, but that's falling too.


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The problem is, SBS needs to remain viable for those primaries.


For those who doubt, make fun of me later.


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[Vinca]

21. I think he can. He seems to take a state-by-state approach rather than a "scatter shot" approach.

I expect he'll do better in the south than we anticipate, especially since Ben Jealous endorsed him. For the life of me I don't know why the AA community is so enamored with Hillary.

[Vinca]

14. Playing the gender card. I hate that.

[jillan]

22. My thoughts on why Warren won't endorse either candidate.

Politically Warren is much much closer to Bernie. She gave that passionate speech on the Senate floor blasting Wall Street, big money and ended it by reminding people that is an election year & to think about who they are going to vote for.

She probably wants to endorse Bernie but is savvy enough to know you do not cross the Clinton machine esp should Hillary win the Presidency.