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Clinton event features all female Democratic senators -- except one
By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 3:10 PM ET, Mon November 30, 2015
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Washington (CNN)—Hillary Clinton will be joined by 13 of the 14 Democratic women of the U.S. Senate at a fundraiser Monday night in Washington, D.C., an attempt by the front-runner's campaign to flex its establishment muscle as the first caucuses and primaries draw closer.
But one Democratic leader is notably missing from the roster of women headlining the Women for Hillary endorsement event: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Despite signing a letter that urged Clinton to run for president in 2013, Warren has so far declined to officially endorse her campaign. The senator, who liberal organizers failed to draft into a presidential campaign for much of 2014 and 2015, told CNN earlier this year that the letter she signed was not an endorsement for the Clinton campaign.
Related: Obama holds out on Hillary Clinton endorsement
But Warren stands alone in not standing by Clinton.
Sens. Tammy Baldwin, Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein, Kirsten Gillibrand, Heidi Heitkamp, Mazie Hirono, Amy Klobuchar, Claire McCaskill, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, Jeanne Shaheen and Debbie Stabenow -- every other Democratic woman senator -- will headline the fundraiser to benefit Clinton's campaign at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.
What's more, 38 of the 46 -- or 83% -- of senators who caucus with the Democrats have already endorsed Clinton despite one of their own -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders -- is running against the former first lady.
Warren's spokeswoman did not respond to questions about why the senator was not attending.
The event is a symbolic one for Clinton...
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More: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/politics/hillary-clinton-elizabeth-warren-fundraiser/
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By Niall Stanage - The Hill
January 12, 2014, 09:00 pm
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The ill-feeling between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) was at one point so intense that the Missouri Democrat told a friend that she was scared of getting stuck alone with the former first lady.
“I really don’t want to be in an elevator alone with her,” McCaskill told the friend, according to the forthcoming book HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by The Hill’s Amie Parnes and Politico’s Jonathan Allen.
The deep tension between Clinton and McCaskill first formed after McCaskill made remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that struck raw nerves for both Hillary and President Clinton.
In 2006, McCaskill was debating then-Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) on the Sunday morning political show. The two were in the midst of a campaign that McCaskill ultimately won, and the Clintons had given her strong backing.
But when the subject of Bill Clinton came up, McCaskill said, “He’s been a great leader but I don’t want my daughter near him.”
According to Parnes and Allen, McCaskill instantly regretted the remark. A friend of McCaskill’s told the authors the unfiltered comment brought her “to the point of epic tears.”
McCaskill later phoned President Clinton to apologize; his gracious response only deepened her distress. Later, as Hillary Clinton began ramping up her own run for the White House, she sought to bond with McCaskill at a private lunch in the Senate dining room, where the two discussed the physical rigors of the campaign trail.
The outreach gave McCaskill an appreciation for Clinton’s human side — but it was not enough to stop her from endorsing then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for the presidency.
She did so in January 2008, and successfully proposed to the Obama campaign that two other prominent female Democrats should come forward during the same period. They were Kathleen Sebelius and Janet Napolitano, who were then serving as the governors of Kansas and Arizona, respectively.
During the epic battle that followed, McCaskill was a frequent surrogate for Obama, earning her ever more intense enmity from Clinton’s inner circle.
“‘Hate’ is too weak a word to describe the feelings that Hillary’s core loyalists still have for McCaskill,” Parnes and Allen write in the book.
McCaskill has been doing her best to mend bridges since then, most conspicuously with a startlingly early endorsement of Clinton for president in 2016.
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More: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/195193-mccaskill-didnt-want-to-be-in-elevator-with-clinton
"If you don't support the establishment gang's candidate then the establishment gang won't support you."
Maybe EW figures she doesn't need the gang's support.
We weren't all born yesterday.
We weren't all born yesterday.
Same ridiculous talking points.
Pathetic........
Nor has president Obama. What's your point?
If she DOES come out and endorse her, will you throw her under the bus?
That's why it was covered over and over on CNN and MSNBC today.
An interesting development, that may signify nothing significant.
Why are you so worried ???
not until she hit middle age. Picking & choosing your democratic leadership based on the flavor of the day is tiresome. Anyone that thought Reagan was acceptable can kiss my ass.
Look... I don't really care...
How about this... everybody's "Middle Age" at least does this...
Income bearing years... Child bearing years... and Retirement bearing years...
Ya got to work... started a family, and happily retired.
THAT DOES NOT START... at 66.
40... would be the middle of their life...
And I hope we can agree... the middle life is not a one year period...
I'd think you would get to stretch it in both directions from 40.
Say... 30 to 60 ???
10 years on either side.
I know damn well why some want to make 66 "Middle aged"...
They want to keep us working, and not retire and collect the benefits we've earned.
The faster we die off, the better for them.
