Elizabeth Warren is the only female Democratic senator who has not endorsed Hillary Clinton, Washington Post reporter Anne Gearan reported Monday.
On Monday night, 13 out of 14 women Democratic senators will join Clinton in Boston to boost her candidacy. Warren’s name was "conspicuously missing" from promotional literature despite that the event was held in a city Warren represents, according to MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell.
Warren’s adversarial relationship with Wall Street and big business is more in line with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) than Clinton, who is viewed as insufficiently liberal by part of the Democratic Party’s base.
Still, Warren has withheld her endorsement of any candidate, possibly to use it as leverage later in the race.
"Whomever she ends up endorsing would then sort of owe some allegiance on the issues that Senator Warren cares most about, progressive economic issues primarily," Gearan said.
Transcript below:
ANDREA MITCHELL: That was Boston Mayor Marty Walsh rallying union members across the country for Hillary Clinton over the weekend. Conspicuously missing from this event and another one planned for tonight with all of the other Democratic women senators, 13 of the 14, missing is Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has not endorsed Hillary Clinton. Joining me now, the Washington Post’s Anne Gearan. Elizabeth Warren is the outlier.
ANNE GEARAN: Absolutely. The campaign announcement of the event tonight at which every Democratic woman senator with the exception of Warren will publicly endorse Clinton just said that 13 Democratic women were going to join the former Secretary of State tonight. It didn't mention that the universe is 14. Of course, it didn’t include Senator Warren's name. As you pointed out, she was not at this event that Clinton held over the weekend on Warren's home turf in Boston.
MITCHELL: I don't think that Warren has officially endorsed Bernie Sanders, her friend and colleague.
GEARAN: She has not. She's not endorsed anyone, nor has she given a timeline for when she might or said with great precision what she's going to base that decision on. Clearly, she's holding out for leverage here. Whomever she ends up endorsing would then sort of owe some allegiance on the issues that Senator Warren cares most about, progressive economic issues primarily.