She has been giving him a taste of his own medicine, going on Twitter rants against him and getting under his skin. He was going all day at her on Wednesday.
The Hillary team admires her work:
"Twice this past week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has unleashed a seemingly unprompted tweetstorm on Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for being sexist, a scam artist, “reckless” and “embarrassing.”
"Dripping with disdain, the 140-character asides got under Trump’s skin (admittedly, not the hardest of feats). He accused her of “tweeting violently” and bestowed on the senator one of his trademark churlish nicknames. “Goofy Elizabeth Warren,” he replied in tweets of his own.
"The more important reaction came not from Trump, however, but from Hillary Clinton‘s campaign. Multiple sources close to the former secretary of state say that her aides took note of the senator’s ability to rile the real estate tycoon. And they recognize the value of such dart throwing from, say, someone filling out a presidential ticket."
"One close Clinton confidant said that she and her aides were “thrilled to see Warren get under his skin.” Another senior Clinton adviser, who is advocating internally for Warren as a vice presidential pick, said the senator has “very influential people in the campaign pushing for her.”
"A longtime Clinton veteran said the campaign definitely noticed Warren’s attacks. “You want a running mate who can take the fight to the other side with relish,” the veteran said. “Geography does not matter, but attitude and talent and energy and bringing excitement to the campaign, Senator Warren does all that.”
"The attributes that Warren would bring to the VP slot extend beyond vigorous mocking of Trump. Top Democrats increasingly see a dual-female ticket as a potent response to a GOP nominee with a well-documented past of sexist remarks."
"Then there is the conventional wisdom that Warren would keep backers of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the fold. “She can help validate Clinton with progressives and remind them that despite their differences in the primary, the alternative of the Donald would be untenable,” said Penny Lee, a former longtime aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and now a Democratic consultant."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-vice-president_us_5734e8efe4b060aa7819c184
Certainly Senator Warren passes the attack dog test. Still, I'm somewhat skeptical. Could Warren really be a Vice President which means being an advocate for the Hillary Administration above Warren's' own strongly held views?
That I'm skeptical of. You don't want your own VP to lock you in and take away your options.
I don't know that Warren would want the job either. She is an advocate-which doesn't make her a great POTUS or VP, quite honestly.
Being in an executive position means you can't get categorical about things or be too single issue. The sorts of compromises that Warren may find unacceptable are part of the job.
I think she is playing a smart game. She probably knows this about herself-she's not cut out for an executive position.
I thinks she may be going on her tweetstorms to make up for failing to endorse Hillary. Even though she has stayed neutral, she has been careful to praise Hillary as well.
"But not everyone is certain that Warren would work as vice president or that she actually wants the job. The aforementioned close confidant interpreted the anti-Trump tweetstorm as more about Warren “showing other Democrats that this is the way to go after Trump, than about positioning herself as a VP candidate.” Others, meanwhile, see a clear reason why she would take the post if offered."
"Some who have tangled with Warren in the past suggest that she’s a capable political talent but not deft enough to handle the crucible of a presidential campaign. Colin Reed, who works for the Republican super PAC America Rising and previously served as a top aide to then-Sen. Scott Brown, the GOP senator whom Warren defeated in the 2012 election, noted that she underperformed President Barack Obama in Massachusetts by 15 percentage points that year. He argued that Warren’s brand as an anti-Wall Street populist would create tensions with Clinton that both of them would want to avoid."
“Warren castigates Goldman Sachs; Clinton takes their money,” Reed said.
"Eric Fehrnstrom, another former Brown adviser, had an additional theory as to why Warren was spending recent days composing anti-Trump tweets, one that suggested this was more about making amends than paving the way to the VP’s residence."
“I think she needed to do something to take the pressure off herself because of her non-endorsement in the Democratic [presidential] race,” Fehrnstrom posited. “The Hillary partisans, who are strong here in Massachusetts, have grown alienated because of her fence sitting. This was a good diversion for her. ... It spared her from answering the question of why, still at this late date, had she not endorsed Hillary Clinton.”
I do know that the Clinton team is in regular contact with Warren and they confer with her team on financial policy.
The Hillary team admires her work:
"Twice this past week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has unleashed a seemingly unprompted tweetstorm on Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for being sexist, a scam artist, “reckless” and “embarrassing.”
"Dripping with disdain, the 140-character asides got under Trump’s skin (admittedly, not the hardest of feats). He accused her of “tweeting violently” and bestowed on the senator one of his trademark churlish nicknames. “Goofy Elizabeth Warren,” he replied in tweets of his own.
"The more important reaction came not from Trump, however, but from Hillary Clinton‘s campaign. Multiple sources close to the former secretary of state say that her aides took note of the senator’s ability to rile the real estate tycoon. And they recognize the value of such dart throwing from, say, someone filling out a presidential ticket."
"One close Clinton confidant said that she and her aides were “thrilled to see Warren get under his skin.” Another senior Clinton adviser, who is advocating internally for Warren as a vice presidential pick, said the senator has “very influential people in the campaign pushing for her.”
"A longtime Clinton veteran said the campaign definitely noticed Warren’s attacks. “You want a running mate who can take the fight to the other side with relish,” the veteran said. “Geography does not matter, but attitude and talent and energy and bringing excitement to the campaign, Senator Warren does all that.”
"The attributes that Warren would bring to the VP slot extend beyond vigorous mocking of Trump. Top Democrats increasingly see a dual-female ticket as a potent response to a GOP nominee with a well-documented past of sexist remarks."
"Then there is the conventional wisdom that Warren would keep backers of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the fold. “She can help validate Clinton with progressives and remind them that despite their differences in the primary, the alternative of the Donald would be untenable,” said Penny Lee, a former longtime aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and now a Democratic consultant."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-vice-president_us_5734e8efe4b060aa7819c184
Certainly Senator Warren passes the attack dog test. Still, I'm somewhat skeptical. Could Warren really be a Vice President which means being an advocate for the Hillary Administration above Warren's' own strongly held views?
That I'm skeptical of. You don't want your own VP to lock you in and take away your options.
I don't know that Warren would want the job either. She is an advocate-which doesn't make her a great POTUS or VP, quite honestly.
Being in an executive position means you can't get categorical about things or be too single issue. The sorts of compromises that Warren may find unacceptable are part of the job.
I think she is playing a smart game. She probably knows this about herself-she's not cut out for an executive position.
I thinks she may be going on her tweetstorms to make up for failing to endorse Hillary. Even though she has stayed neutral, she has been careful to praise Hillary as well.
"But not everyone is certain that Warren would work as vice president or that she actually wants the job. The aforementioned close confidant interpreted the anti-Trump tweetstorm as more about Warren “showing other Democrats that this is the way to go after Trump, than about positioning herself as a VP candidate.” Others, meanwhile, see a clear reason why she would take the post if offered."
"Some who have tangled with Warren in the past suggest that she’s a capable political talent but not deft enough to handle the crucible of a presidential campaign. Colin Reed, who works for the Republican super PAC America Rising and previously served as a top aide to then-Sen. Scott Brown, the GOP senator whom Warren defeated in the 2012 election, noted that she underperformed President Barack Obama in Massachusetts by 15 percentage points that year. He argued that Warren’s brand as an anti-Wall Street populist would create tensions with Clinton that both of them would want to avoid."
“Warren castigates Goldman Sachs; Clinton takes their money,” Reed said.
"Eric Fehrnstrom, another former Brown adviser, had an additional theory as to why Warren was spending recent days composing anti-Trump tweets, one that suggested this was more about making amends than paving the way to the VP’s residence."
“I think she needed to do something to take the pressure off herself because of her non-endorsement in the Democratic [presidential] race,” Fehrnstrom posited. “The Hillary partisans, who are strong here in Massachusetts, have grown alienated because of her fence sitting. This was a good diversion for her. ... It spared her from answering the question of why, still at this late date, had she not endorsed Hillary Clinton.”
I do know that the Clinton team is in regular contact with Warren and they confer with her team on financial policy.
There is not a need for them to form a ticket. Warren will certainly be a point person for Hillary on financial policy in her Administration.
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