“Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state,” a source familiar with the planning tells Politico.
“Neither Clinton nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president, who almost ran against her in the Democratic primaries but has since been campaigning for her at a breakneck pace all over the country in these final months.”