Clinton aide says women on VP shortlist, sparking rumors about Elizabeth Warren wanting the job

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Thursday April 21, 2016 · 7:40 AM PDT

2016/04/21 · 07:40

Clinton wants “the best person to make the case to the American people,” her campaign chairman, John Podesta, told the Globe. “We’ll start with a broad list and then begin to narrow it. But there is no question that there will be women on that list,” he said, adding that staffers are still focused on clinching the primary.

Warren has been wading more deeply into 2016 presidential politics in recent weeks. On Tuesday she unleashed a 12-part tweetstorm aimed at Texas Senator Ted Cruz that some perceived as an audition for the attack-dog role that traditionally falls to vice presidential nominees.

In it, she accused Cruz of whining about the sacrifices that a president would need to make. “We’re supposed to pity you because trying to be the leader of the free world is hard?!” Warren wrote. “2 words: Boo hoo.”

She’s also trained fire at Republican front-runner Donald Trump, typing a Facebook post that called him “a bigger, uglier threat every day that goes by.” (He replied by mocking the flap over her claims to Native American ancestry, and referring to her as “the Indian.”)

What do you think, do Elizabeth Warren’s attacks on Cruz and Trump (and earning a typically racist and offensive Trump response) suggest that she’s auditioning for VP, or is she just doing it because it’s the right thing to do? Would Warren be a good VP for Clinton, and would Warren be able to win over Bernie supporters who might otherwise refuse to vote for Clinton in November?

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