Report: Sen. Warren to soon endorse Hillary Clinton

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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren will soon endorse presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and, while not currently interested in serving as her running mate, has not ruled it out, several sources close to Warren told Reuters.

Advisers to Warren, a fiery critic of Wall Street and a popular figure among progressive Democrats, have been in close contact with Clinton’s campaign team and the conversations have increased in frequency in recent weeks, the sources said.

Warren, 66, represents her home state of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. The sources said that foremost in her thinking is how best to help the Democratic Party defeat the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 presidential election and advance issues such as income inequality which top Warren’s agenda...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-endorsement_us_5758a27ae4b0ced23ca6ffec

[grasswire]

1. so much for the gossip elsewhere. nt

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2. Obviously she will at some point and probably sooner rather than later

because she understands the consequences of Trump being elected.

[dubyadiprecession]

3. It's great that Hillary picks up endorsements and train wreck trump loses them....

That republican congress is going to disintegrate in november.

[bigdarryl]

4. Damn Warren is 66 years old I though she was younger than her age

She looks better than some woman in there forties

[woolldog]

5. She's about th same age as Hillary; same gender;

same geographical region. That means she's not a good choice for VP.

[thucythucy]

6. I think that sort of political "ticket balancing" is a thing of the past.

When (Bill) Clinton picked Gore as his running mate lots of pundits said, oh no, two guys from the south, where's the balance? But they proved the old calculus no longer applies, at least not with as much meaning as before.

As for two women on the same ticket, I notice the idea of two men on the same ticket hasn't been a problem for every major party for every election pretty much since the beginning of the republic. Only two exceptions, until now--Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and (ugh!) Sarah Palin in 2008. Otherwise it's been all men, all the time, and I don't recall many pundits or critics saying the tickets were at all unbalanced.