Wikileaks emails show Hillary Clinton's staff thought Marco Rubio was the new Obama - and didn't see Donald Trump as a threat at all
A new batch of emails were released by Wikileaks from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta last week
They show that the staff first focused in on Florida Senator Marco Rubio as the biggest threat
Rubio was seen as 'reasonable' and 'populist' and would appeal to a young voter base
Staffers noticed he was using messages in his speeches that echoed the ones Obama used to beat Hillary
The staff hardly took notice of Donald Trump at first - but eventually came to hope he would get the nomination, fearing Rubio would be harder to beat
By Kiri Blakeley For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:48 EST, 11 October 2016 | Updated: 06:02 EST, 11 October 2016
A new batch of Wikileaks emails highlighting Hillary Clinton's campaign were released last week and show that the first GOP candidate the Democrats saw as a threat wasn't Donald Trump but Marco Rubio.
At 43, the Florida Senator was the youngest Republican in a crowded field of 17 candidates and was seen by Clinton's advisers as similar to Obama, who bested Clinton in 2008 with his calls for a move away from the old guard politicians.
Wikileaks claims the emails come from the hacked account of campaign chairman John Podesta.
Neither Podesta or Clinton have denied their authenticity.
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