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Bill Clinton’s big fear: Elizabeth Warren 2016 [View all]
Bill Clinton’s big fear: Elizabeth Warren 2016
12/3/2014
The former president sees the progressive favorite as a threat to his wife's presidential ambitions, report says
While most pundits currently view Hillary Clinton as the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, the Washington Post reports today that her camp is taking seriously the possibility that other candidates could complicate — or even thwart — her second White House bid. According to two sources close to the former secretary of state’s husband, former President Bill Clinton is particularly vexed by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a progressive favorite whose fierce criticism of Wall Street and big corporations has caught fire among liberal activists and stands in stark contrast to the Clintons’ business-friendly centrism.
The Post’s Anna Gearan writes that Bill Clinton “admires Warren’s stemwinder speaking style” and notes that Hillary Clinton sought to channel Warren’s populist message during several of her midterm campaign appearances this year. But Clinton’s attempts to sound Warrenesque themes occasionally proved awkward, as when she asserted that businesses and corporations don’t create jobs. Clinton later said that she “shorthanded” her remarks....
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/03/bill_clintons_big_fear_elizabeth_warren_2016/
12/3/2014
The former president sees the progressive favorite as a threat to his wife's presidential ambitions, report says
While most pundits currently view Hillary Clinton as the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, the Washington Post reports today that her camp is taking seriously the possibility that other candidates could complicate — or even thwart — her second White House bid. According to two sources close to the former secretary of state’s husband, former President Bill Clinton is particularly vexed by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a progressive favorite whose fierce criticism of Wall Street and big corporations has caught fire among liberal activists and stands in stark contrast to the Clintons’ business-friendly centrism.
The Post’s Anna Gearan writes that Bill Clinton “admires Warren’s stemwinder speaking style” and notes that Hillary Clinton sought to channel Warren’s populist message during several of her midterm campaign appearances this year. But Clinton’s attempts to sound Warrenesque themes occasionally proved awkward, as when she asserted that businesses and corporations don’t create jobs. Clinton later said that she “shorthanded” her remarks....
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/03/bill_clintons_big_fear_elizabeth_warren_2016/
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