BOSTON—As Hillary Clinton weighs possible running mates, Elizabeth Warren offers a historic choice.
Warren’s got all the fire any Democratic presidential candidate would want in a 2016 running mate. She’s gleefully taunts Donald Trump and she’s a dogged campaigner and enthusiastic ambassador to the party’s skeptical liberal base of supporters.
On the Democratic ticket with Clinton, Warren would also be a bridge to supporters of former rival Bernie Sanders and a second fist through the glass ceiling to the highest offices in the land. Clinton got there first as the lone woman ever to capture a major party’s presidential nomination in the United States.
Two accomplished women on the ticket — which would be a first for any major party — is a prospect that ignited cheers and excitement when the pair clasped hands and raised them high overhead in a campaign appearance in Michigan last month.
Clinton called Warren a “friend” and a “great leader.” Warren, like Clinton a law school graduate, praised the presumptive presidential nominee for “fighting for the people who need her the most” and for having a “good heart.”
