Looming over the Democratic field is the chance that Vice President Joe Biden will make a late entry into the race.
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Baier then pressed Gates on whether Vice President Biden was one of the voices expressing those theories, to which he responded, “I think so”.
People familiar with the conversations tell CNN that Biden has been making the calls throughout the week, including on Wednesday, just as many leading Democrats argued the window to a potential candidacy was closing in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s strong performance in the party’s first presidential debate. “Everything he and the president have worked for and care about is at stake”, Kaufman said.
A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of the state found Clinton with a narrow, 2-point lead over insurgent Sen.
“Everybody else, whether they are in or they are not, will have to make whatever judgement is best for them”, she said at the worldwide Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Ted Kaufman said in an email to a list of “Biden alumn”. “If he decides to run, we will need each and every one of you – yesterday!” He’s telling former Biden staffers in a letter that Biden will need help from all of them if he runs.
Kaufman, a longtime Biden confidant, served as his chief of staff in the Senate and was appointed to replace him when Biden became vice president.
Kaufman’s letter to former staffers opened a new, more public phase of the deliberations, as Biden seeks to keep himself in the discussion despite the fact that many Democrats have moved on or grown frustrated with his indecision. The vice president has said previously he’s unsure he has the emotional fortitude to run following his son’s death.
Obama said that while he was “clicking back and forth” between playoff baseball games and the debate, he was “very impressed with all” the candidates on the stage.
Vice-President Joe Biden is either playing coy with his intentions, or is genuinely torn about whether he wants to run in the 2016 election.
“A campaign from the heart”.
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“I think the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails”, said Sen. I do, however, think it’s unfair for Democrats or criminal justice reform supporters to throw all of their hopes and dreams behind two candidates who have either done basically nothing on the issue or have supported the very same “tough-on-crime” policies that were a major driver to the incarceration problems we’re facing today, despite a few evidence that they’re beginning to head in the other direction.
