David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist and longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, says he doesn’t think Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) poses a credible threat to Hillary Clinton’s likely presidential bid in 2016.
“I know Elizabeth Warren well, and my strong feeling is she’s not going to run,” Axelrod said in a Wednesday interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I think she’s trying to influence the direction of the party, and you have more influence as a potential candidate than you do if you take yourself out. So she’s allowing, she’s sticking to this language of ‘I’m not running for president,’ and titillating people with it, because it gives her more leverage.”
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HuffPost Pollster’s model, which tracks publicly available opinion polls, currently shows Clinton ahead of the rest of the potential Democratic field by nearly 50 points:
