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		</div><p>Allies of Hillary Clinton felt threatened by the power of Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; candidacy and wondered about getting some signal of support from President Barack Obama in the heat of the Democratic primaries, according to leaked emails.</p>
<p>Ahead of the Illinois primary in March, liberal operative Neera Tanden asked Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, who formerly worked on Mr Obama&#8217;s transition in 2008, if the president could give any kind of indication that he was supporting Clinton over Sanders.</p>
<p>Ms Tanden asked Mr Podesta whether Mr Obama could &#8220;even hint of support of Hillary before Tuesday?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Obama stayed officially neutral in the primaries until Ms Clinton clinched the nomination in June.</p>
<p>Ms Tanden wrote: &#8220;Maybe they don&#8217;t want to do this, but the stakes are pretty damn high in this election for him.&#8221;</p>
<p>The email exchange was contained in more than 1,500 emails released on Wednesday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.</p>
<p>The notes were stolen from Mr Podesta&#8217;s email account as part of a series of high-profile computer hacks of Democratic targets that US intelligence officials say were orchestrated by Russia, with the intent to influence the November 8 election. Russia has denied the allegations.</p>
<p>In a separate June 2015 email, the Clinton campaign worried some state affiliates of the nation&#8217;s largest labour union, the National Education Association (NEA), were set to endorse Mr Sanders even though the national union had not yet made an endorsement.</p>
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<p>On June 22, 2015, Clinton&#8217;s labour outreach director Nikki Budzinski emailed other campaign officials to let them know &#8220;NEA is concerned their VT affiliate could do a Tuesday (next week) recommendation of endorsement (with potential press release). This is not confirmed. The bigger concern is that RI and MA might go with VT as well.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carrie Pugh, the NEA&#8217;s political director, had similar concerns and shared them with Clinton campaign officials.</p>
<p>Ms Budzinski said the move in Vermont &#8220;doesn&#8217;t pose serious concern for the NEA overall endorsement&#8221; but called it an &#8220;optics problem&#8221; coming before a major meeting of NEA representatives.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am working with Carrie Pugh on options to head this off,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>The NEA ultimately endorsed Ms Clinton in October 2015 despite some complaints that leaders had not taken Mr Sanders seriously enough and should have waited.</p>
<p>Both Mr Podesta and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio warmed to the idea of setting up a &#8220;People&#8217;s PAC&#8221; intended as a vehicle for Ms Clinton to direct support toward liberal Democrats in the House and Senate &#8211; and potentially draw Mr Sanders&#8217; supporters to Ms Clinton.</p>
<p>The idea was floated in a March 2016 email from Huffington Post contributor Brett Budowsky to Mr Podesta, which he forwarded to Mr de Blasio, who responded that the liberal PAC &#8220;has a lot of merit&#8221;.</p>
<p>The People&#8217;s PAC never came to pass.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a good idea but think that our team will see it as a resource diversion,&#8221; Mr Podesta wrote to Mr de Blasio.</p>
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