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joe biden is at the top of the internal short list hillary clinton<u+2019>s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells politico. 




this would be the first major cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that<u+2019>s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps the most central choice for a potential president who was a secretary of state herself. 




neither clinton, nor her aides have yet told biden. according to the source, they<u+2019>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. 




<u+201c>he<u+2019>d be great, and they are spending a lot of time figuring out the best way to try to persuade him to do it if she wins,<u+201d> said the source familiar with the transition planning.
clinton eyes biden for secretary of state
howard portnoy