Insiders game-out Clinton’s Cabinet

*This is good for all you inside baseball watchers. Clinton insiders are already vying for position in her inner circle. There are many names mentioned, only one Latino. It’s not because of a lack of  talent or experience. Some things don’t change. VL

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By Eward-Isaac Dovere, Politico

Hillary Clinton’s circle insists any real talk about who might join her in the White House and in her Cabinet if she wins the November election is far too premature.

But that hasn’t stopped the conversations.

There was former Rep. Barney Frank telling Vice President Joe Biden he should be Clinton’s Defense secretary (“He made a face,” Frank said, in an interview off the convention floor last week in Philadelphia). There was former Attorney General Eric Holder looking right at Clinton running mate runner-up Tom Perez at one of the Maryland delegation breakfasts as he told the crowd, “if you elect Donald Trump, Chris Christie or Jeff Sessions will be your attorney general,” according to a person in the room, but “if, on the other hand, you elect Hillary Clinton, I know exactly who it should be.”

Few of the discussions have been aired quite so publicly. It’s mainly Clinton advisers and allies starting to size up possibilities, top Democrats in Washington and beyond batting names back and forth, wondering with varying levels of certainty about who might go where.

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Still, Democrats hovering between cautious optimism and nervous confidence over the look of a prospective Clinton administration, are starting to put together names.

They factor in Clinton’s promise to have a Cabinet that’s at least 50 percent female if she’s president, and the thin bench of prominent Democratic politicians — which could make it difficult to assemble a better-known first-term Cabinet . . . READ MORE 

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