Sanders, Warren considered as Clinton’s running mate

The Clinton campaign has not confirmed the authenticity of this or any of the hundreds of other emails released by Wikileaks over the past week.

The emails acquired by WikiLeaks came from the account of Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta.

Back in early 2014, a media leak revealed Robby Mook was being considered to run a possible presidential campaign by Hillary Clinton.

The Clinton campaign chairman listed Heinrich among the white men, but misspelled the senator’s name as “Heinreich”. That “food group” also included Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe; Agriculture Secretary (and former Iowa governor) Tom Vilsack; Colorado Senator Michael Bennett; Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown; New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich and Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy. Clinton’s primaries foe Bernie Sanders also made the list but is mentioned at the very bottom and not grouped with anyone else.

But other potential running mates – including the chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, Muhtar Kent, the Turkish-American chief executive of Coca-Cola, and Howard Schultz, chief executive of Starbucks – would have been highly unconventional. The Russian government has been blamed for this and other hacks, which United States officials say is an attempt by Russia to tilt the election in Republican candidate Donald Trump’s favor.

The list shows that Mr. Podesta separated the large list of candidates into what he called “food groups”, based on their past experience, or in some cases gender and race. It’s understandable that the Clinton campaign wanted to show off a vice presidential-candidate that has a proven track record of building and sustaining a notable company.

The list also included former NY mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg; political figures Elizabeth Warren, Eric Holder and Julian Castro; and Clinton’s eventual running mate Tim Kaine.

“I don’t know how the story advances, she wrote in the email“. Clinton was asked to add or remove names before vetting started.

Shortly after the New York Times exposed Clinton’s use of a private server to conduct government business at the State Department, Podesta told Cheryl Mills, a longtime Clinton confidante, that he wanted the political “fight to be about Benghazi, not about servers in her basement”. Who was on Hillary Clinton’s VP list?