Presidential races

Podesta floated Bill Gates, Bloomberg as possible Clinton VPs

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman in March floated a long list of potential running mates for Clinton, including billionaire Bill Gates, former Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). 

{mosads}John Podesta emailed Clinton a list of 39 names to consider for vetting as her eventual running mate, according to a hacked email posted on WikiLeaks on Tuesday morning. 

The list includes expected names like Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, as well as Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who ended up joining Clinton’s ticket in July.

The list appeared to divide options into categories. Hispanic people, women, white lawmakers and black lawmakers were each listed in groups, as well as military figures and people from the business world.

Sanders, who was facing off with Clinton in the Democratic primaries at the time, occupied his own category at the bottom.

Below is the full list from the email. All spelling errors and formatting are as they appear in the original email:

 

Javier Becerra 

Julian Castro 

Eric Garcetti 

Tom Perez 

Ken Salazar  

 

Tammy Baldwin 

Kirsten Gillibrand 

Amy Klobuchar 

Claire McKaskill 

Jeanne Shaheen 

Debbie Stabenow 

Elizabeth Warren  

 

Michael Bennet 

Sherrod Brown 

Martin Heinreich 

Tim Kaine 

Terry McAuliffe 

Chris Murphy 

Tom Vilsack  

 

Steve Benjamin 

Corey Booker 

Andrew Gillum 

Eric Holder 

Deval Patrick 

Kasim Reed 

Anthony Foxx  

 

John Allen 

Bill McCraven 

Mike Mullen  

 

Mary Barra 

Michael Bloomberg 

Ursula Burns 

Tim Cook 

Bill Gates 

Melinda Gates 

Muhtar Kent 

Judith Rodin 

Howard Schultz  

 

Bernie Sanders