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Transcript: David Axelrod on 'FOX News Sunday'.
Transcript: Howard Wolfson on 'FOX News Sunday'.
Obama camp: Clinton not looking for a deal (CNN):
Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign rejected suggestions Sunday that Sen. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in hopes of brokering some kind of agreement with the likely Democratic nominee.
"I don't believe that Sen. Clinton is looking for a deal," Obama's chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, told "Fox News Sunday," when asked about suggestions she may want the Obama campaign's help retiring her campaign debt.
"I don't think that's what this is about," he said.
Last week, Obama sparked rumors that his campaign would pay off Clinton's campaign debts once he secured the nomination.
( Read more... )He added,
"I don't think even under any scenario ... that we were going to transfer money from the Obama campaign to the Clinton campaign. We obviously need the resources we have. We have a great task ahead of us." He said he believes "there was a misunderstanding out there about that."
Axelrod said he believes Clinton "will have the capacity to retire her debt."
He also denied rumors that the Clinton camp may be in some kind of discussions with the Obama camp to make her his running mate. "There's been no discussion about vice presidential nominees and this whole scenario," Axelrod said.Axelrod also denied reports that Obama's wife, Michelle, wants nothing to do with the Clintons, presenting a potential obstacle to what some have called a "dream ticket."
"That's false," he said, emphasizing that
there have not been "any overtures" about a possible Clinton-Obama ticket.Also on "Fox News Sunday," Clinton's top strategist,
Howard Wolfson, said that "We think Sen. Clinton is going to be the nominee," and that he has "seen no evidence of her interest" in the No. 2 slot.
"This isn't about debt retirement or about the veep," he said.( Read more... )