blast from wikileaks past 2016

Biden wanted Warren as his VP

By Glenn Thrush and Annie Karni

05/12/2016 05:23 AM EDT

Joe Biden took months to decide he wouldn't run for president - but he was sold on Elizabeth Warren as his running mate from the start, people familiar with the situation told POLITICO.

And he still thinks the Massachusetts firebrand would be Hillary Clinton's best choice to replace him as the nation's No. 2 in January 2017.

Biden, a stalwart Democrat who has veered leftward in recent years

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2517

From: elle magazine

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Date: 2012-04-05 02:00

Subject: AT THE PINNACLE OF HILLARY CLINTON'S CAREER

Time ran a beauty shot of her on the cover recently along with a poll showing that if

she were in the 2012 presidential race, she'd beat all the Republican candidates more

resoundingly than Obama.

Though nobody serious has called for her to challenge the president in 2012, columnists

and pundits across the country have been urging Obama to perform a switcheroo, placing

her in the role of VP and Biden in the State Department. (All three have denied this is a

possibility.) Bill Keller, former executive editor ofhe New York Times and the most

prominent of the "Draft Hillary" team, framed making Clinton VP as Obama's duty to his

party because of the boost she could deliver in independent and Democratic voter turnout,

giving the party a nationwide mandate going into Obama's lame-duck term.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/22597