This surprises NO ONE
The fear of a 70 year-old white woman apparently very real...
Big money donors are pressuring Joe Biden against picking Elizabeth Warren for VP: ‘He would lose the election’
- Big money donors are pressuring Joe Biden to not choose Sen. Elizabeth Warren as his running mate, even while the centrist former vice president tries to appeal to progressive voters.
- Those conversations have recently included attempts to push the campaign away from picking Warren and encouraging the choice of other candidates purportedly on his list, such as Sens. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
- “She would be horrible. He would lose the election,” said a Wall Street executive who was once backing others running in the Democratic primary and later joined Biden’s donor ranks.
Warren herself hasn’t stopped since her campaign ended. She’s putting out one solution after another after another, organizing endlessly and writing legislation with colleagues from both Senate and the House in how to solve the catastrophic economic collapse that we’re all experiencing. She’s started Warren Democrats and is now endorsing and fundraising for down ballot progressives and Joe Biden as well. The woman is a machine.
Anyway the article goes on to mention that Joe Biden is pushing back on anyone who has issues with Warren. Well considering she polls the highest from all the VP options along all demographics, is the most popular female democrat and is the best grassroots fundraiser and coalition builder…..hmmm.
There are some signs, however, that Biden is shrugging off anyone vocalizing discontent with Warren. He is plowing ahead with appeasing progressives who backed her campaign while possibly looking to bring her into the fold. The Washington Post reported that Biden’s team hired two of Warren’s fundraising advisors and channeled some of the Massachusetts senator’s progressive views at a virtual donor event last week.
“Look, you know Wall Street is – they’re good folks. But guess what they didn’t build America. Ordinary Americans, middle class built America,” Biden said, while noting that he believes the pandemic has shown “the institutional racism, the institutional difficulties that are set out there for ordinary people.”
Another move that suggests Biden is trying to appeal to Warren and fellow progressive, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is his appointment of longtime advisor Ted Kaufman to help put together a presidential transition team. During his short stint in the Senate, Kaufman introduced an amendment to the 2010 Dodd Frank reform bill that could have cut down the size of a few of the big banks. It failed to pass in the Senate. Still, some progressive activists are happy that Kaufman, a Wall Street critic, is assisting in crafting a group of advisors for Biden.
Full article here…www.cnbc.com/...