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Running mate: Hillary Clinton’s VP search moves into more intense phase

Hillary Clinton’s search for a running mate is moving into a more intense phase, according to several Democrats. Aides are contacting a pared-down pool of candidates to ask for reams of personal information and set up interviews with the presumptive Democratic nominee’s vetting team. Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well-liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.Vermont Sen.

Every day we learn more about him, and every day it becomes clearer that he is just a small, insecure money-grubber who doesn’t care about anyone or anything that doesn’t have the Trump name splashed all over it.

Elizabeth Warren

But Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s toughest primary rival, is not on the shortlist of vice presidential candidates, according to one Democrat. A small group of Clinton campaign confidants has been sifting through publicly available information about more than two dozen possible contenders for more than a month. Clinton was pressing forward on her search for a running mate as her GOP rival Donald Trump struggled with dismal fundraising and major questions about his campaign organization. Trump fired his campaign manager Monday and new fundraising data showed donors gave the businessman’s campaign just over $3 million last month.