DiFi’s Doubts about Clinton Candidacy Assuaged With a Phone Call
Thursday, May 8th, 2008WASHINGTON - Looks like CA Senator Dianne Feinstein is back in the Hillary fold. Yesterday, the Clinton supporter indicated that she might be wavering — telling Fox Senate producer Trish Turner that she’s a loyal person, but that “I don’t want to rip the party asunder.”
Her concern? “On this one, the key is really in the strategy and whether the strategy is workable,” she said. But Turner reports that, after receiving a phone call from Senator Clinton this morning, Feinstein felt her questions were answered.
“I’m sticking with her, absolutely,” she said. The strategy Clinton laid out for her? “To win.”
Feinstein said she didn’t give Clinton any advice on how to go forward, mostly because it didn’t seem as though she needed any. “She feels intense support from her people. She is persevering. She is very collected. She is very determined. She is really together,” said Feinstein. “And she’s going to make the decision if the time comes. She doesn’t believe its the time. And she’s going to continue on.
“Her strategy is to win this election. And she’s entitled to her opportunity to try.”
But Clinton also told Feinstein that she would do nothing that she feels would harm the party.
