Warren email: Clinton “a fighter” who will take on Wall Street, student-loan debt ...

[pampango]

In an email addressed to “Friend,” Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has put out a personal(ish) ask for money on behalf of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton - a big indicator that Clinton sees the progressive darling as a powerful asset to her general election campaign. Not unrelatedly, the Associated Press reports that Warren is one of the few potential running mates who has been moved into full vetting mode.

“For 25 years, she’s been on the receiving end of attack after attack,” Warren wrote of Clinton. “She didn’t whimper. She didn’t whine. She’s always fought back with grace and determination – and no matter how many punches she took, each time she came out fighting stronger.”

Calling Clinton “a fighter” who will take on Wall Street, student-loan debt and fight for minority rights, Warren highlights Clinton’s “progressive agenda” in a likely bid to warm the left wing of the Democratic party to the candidate, after a bitter primary campaign against democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.

As Warren has done on numerous occasions, the email ends with a broadside against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who Warren states has “built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jun/21/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-economy-us-election-live

[Android3.14]

1. If she goes with Warren, I'll have two reasons to vote for Clinton.

[bonemachine]

2. I know this is a little snarky

But I can't help myself:

The implication is that you support Hillary for a single reason. I have to ask, what is it?

Edit: Oh wait, there it is in your signature line

[Qutzupalotl]

3. If she doesn't go with Warren, this might explain why:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017387384

[DawgHouse]

4. No, HRC isn't in the pockets of Wall Street.

That's a right wing talking point against our nominee.

[AntiBank]

8. so you are saying every progressive who has reservations about Clinton's

deep ties to Wall Street and mega banks (her chief financial advisor is rat fuck Gary Gensler, ex of Glodman Sachs and one of the driving forces behind the horrific repeal of Glass-Steagall and passage of the odious Commodities Futues and Modernisation Act of 2000, both of which greatly aided the financial meltdown of 2008) is a closet right-winger??

RIDICULOUS

[Old Union Guy]

10. Now now.

Wait until she's elected before saying that stuff here.

[AntiBank]

11. I am voting for her, but I have utterly legitimate reservations

There seems to be a scorched earth policy amongst some that all on the left not only have to vote for her (a legitimate call as Trump is a monster) but we also have to STFU about any and all things that we disagree with. It's like forced kool-aid drinking from an ideological perspective.

[NYC Liberal]

7. There are many reasons she may not pick Warren,

the most likely of which is that she doesn't want to take a Democrat from the Senate and risk having them replaced by a Republican.

Many of us Democrats right here agree with that reasoning.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. I agree as well.

Warren has more power in the Senate than she would as VP.

My purpose in posting the video was to point out that Wall Street is threatening to withhold a significant amount of funding. Were she to pick Warren, Clinton would have to make up the difference with grassroots or other contributions. She could get more of the Sanders voters to contribute if she adopts some of Warren's positions, which are similar to Sanders'. But it does present her with a conundrum of having to adopt some of the positions she argued against during the primary in order to unify the party, or simply choosing someone else.

My guess is that she will choose someone else, but enlist Warren to help fire up the crowds. Trump does not seem concerned with raising funds, so perhaps Clinton does not need to worry so much either.

Either way, her chances of winning look excellent, especially if Trump is the nominee. However, a shakeup in Cleveland might mean a last-minute adjustment to her strategy. If Trump is out, my guess is the Repubs will go with Kasich or Ryan as a consensus (or nonsensus) candidate. That would mean a tighter race, and thus a greater need for more funds.

[Barack_America]

5. No, Liz.

No.

It's not worth it.

[Alfresco]

6. Excellent, Elizabeth is stepping up for Hillary.

[angrychair]

13. With all due respect to Senator Warren

And Sec Clinton, I have been on the record here, and elaborated in detail, that her higher education plan is a compromise plan that will be almost impossible to implement and manage and her responses to the student loan debt crisis, up to this point, have been disappointing.
Student loan debt is the second largest debt burden the nation, saddling millions of young people with what turns out to be a lifetime of debt as they struggle to live and pay DOE-backed loans with interest rates above 6%. The DOE is bringing in billions of dollars in profits from student loan debt Interest. I know people that have struggled their whole lives to pay on their loans and their current "best case" repayment plan has them making their final payment when they are 69 years old. If they live that long they would have so struggled to figure out a way to pay from 18 to the day they die.
We need a better plan than what is currently on the table.