2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWall Street donors seek to block Warren VP pick
If Clinton chooses the Massachusetts senator as her running mate, donations will dry up, fundraisers warn.
NEW YORK Big Wall Street donors have a message for Hillary Clinton: Keep Elizabeth Warren off the ticket or risk losing millions of dollars in contributions.
In a dozen interviews, major Democratic donors in the financial services industry said they saw little chance that Clinton would pick the liberal firebrand as her vice presidential nominee. These donors despise Warrens attacks on the financial industry. But they also think her selection would be damaging to the economy. And they warned that if Clinton surprises them and taps Warren, big donations from the industry could vanish.
If Clinton picked Warren, her whole base on Wall Street would leave her, said one top Democratic donor who has helped raise millions for Clinton. They would literally just say, We have no qualms with you moving left, we understand all the things youve had to do because of Bernie Sanders, but if you are going there with Warren, we just cant trust you, youve killed it.
Most big donors dont want Warren on the ticket because she is the most accomplished anti-Wall Street populist in the Democratic Party. But many also think her presence would drive a potential Clinton administration too far to the left, poison relations with the private sector from the start and ultimately be damaging to the economy.
A constant theme that emerged in the interviews is that executives in the financial industry believe the first 100 days of a Clinton administration could feature potential deal making with Republicans, who are likely to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/elizabeth-warren-wall-street-vice-president-224489#ixzz4F9232WbJ
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She couldn't pick Warren, I did not want her to. We need Warren in the Senate.
awake
(3,226 posts)No problem with Warren on the ticket we can easly raise all the money she wants
woodsprite
(11,854 posts)Screw Wallstreet!!! This is her chance to really make history!
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)Senator Warren does them way more harm as a Senator than she ever could as a VP.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)If keeping our toughest "anti-Wallstreet populist" in the Senate is a key to their support... it seems pretty reasonable to oblige ; -) If someone gave me money to do that, I'd almost feel like I'm stealing, lol.