Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is expected to endorse Hillary Clinton Thursday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” according to Boston Globe reporter Annie Linskey.
EXCLUSIVE: Warren will endorse HRC on Rachel Maddow’s show TONIGHT at 9 p.m.
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) June 9, 2016
The prized endorsement from the popular Massachusetts senator would come on the same day President Barack Obama went public with his own support for Clinton.
Clinton secured enough pledged delegates this week to clinch the Democratic nomination and earned big wins in Tuesday’s primaries in California and New Jersey.
Warren, who has lead the Democratic Party’s attacks on presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, has been floated as a vice presidential pick who could help Clinton appeal to disappointed supporters of her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Clinton called Warren “an incredible public servant, eminently qualified for any role” in a Thursday interview with Politico.
“I look forward to working with her on behalf of not only the campaign and her very effective critique of Trump, but also on the issues that she and I both care about,” Clinton said.
Throw 100 random elected officials or policy wonks in Washington D.C. into a room. Odds are good Warren is the most competent and smartest of the group.
Warren started her academic career as a lecturer at Rutgers School of Law–Newark (1977–78). She moved to the University of Houston Law Center (1978–83), where she became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1980, and obtained tenure in 1981. She taught at the University of Texas School of Law as visiting associate professor in 1981, and returned as a full professor two years later (staying 1983–87). In addition, she was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan (1985) and research associate at the Population Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin (1983–87).[33] Early in her career, Warren became a proponent of on-the-ground research based on studying how people actually respond to laws in the real world. Her work analyzing court records, and interviewing judges, lawyers, and debtors, established her as a rising star in the field of bankruptcy law.[34]
Warren joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a full professor in 1987 and obtained an endowed chair in 1990 (becoming William A Schnader Professor of Commercial Law). She taught for a year at Harvard Law School in 1992 as Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Commercial Law. In 1995, Warren left Penn to become Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.[33] As of 2011, she was the only tenured law professor at Harvard who was trained at an American public university.[34] At Harvard, Warren became one of the most highly cited law professors in the United States. Although she had published in many fields, her expertise was in bankruptcy. In the field of bankruptcy and commercial law, only Douglas Baird of Chicago, Alan Schwartz of Yale, and Bob Scott of Columbia have citation rates comparable to that of Warren.[35] Warren’s scholarship and public advocacy were the impetus behind the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[36]
It’s just getting better and better as the day goes on! Thank you Elizabeth Warren!!!
Tell us something we don’t know.
I will continue to give you the benefit of the doubt but you’ve made several comments on these threads that are not adding to the conversation, at least not in a positive or meaningful way.
Are you happy that Sen. Warren will be giving her endorsement? If not, why?
Have the denunciations by the Berniacs started yet on social media?