-
Tips for becoming a good boxer - November 6, 2020
-
7 expert tips for making your hens night a memorable one - November 6, 2020
-
5 reasons to host your Christmas party on a cruise boat - November 6, 2020
-
What to do when you’re charged with a crime - November 6, 2020
-
Should you get one or multiple dogs? Here’s all you need to know - November 3, 2020
-
A Guide: How to Build Your Very Own Magic Mirror - February 14, 2019
-
Our Top Inspirational Baseball Stars - November 24, 2018
-
Five Tech Tools That Will Help You Turn Your Blog into a Business - November 24, 2018
-
How to Indulge on Vacation without Expanding Your Waist - November 9, 2018
-
5 Strategies for Businesses to Appeal to Today’s Increasingly Mobile-Crazed Customers - November 9, 2018
APNewsBreak: Top Biden aide lays out potential 2016 platform
In a letter sent to former staffers on Thursday, Biden’s close confidant and longtime friend former Delaware Sen.
Advertisement
If Biden were to announce a bid for the White House, he would enter the race already far behind the Democratic Party’s top two presidential hopefuls, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Twelve percent of respondents were undecided, and 11 percent said they’d back Vice President Joe Biden if he runs.
“If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead”, Kaufman said.
With a confident and controlled performance Tuesday night in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton undoubtedly reached her entire prime target audience in the first Democratic debate of this presidential campaign season.
Should he run, Biden “has to establish his own identity”, but to do so he would have to highlight times when he privately disagreed with Obama, said Anthony Cordesman, an expert on USA security policy at the Center for Strategic and global Studies.
As Biden worked the phones, one of his top allies was preparing supporters for action.
“I don’t think any man or woman should run for president unless, number one, they know exactly why they would want to be president and, number two, they can look at folks out there and say, ‘I promise you, you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and my passion to do this, ‘ ” Biden told Colbert. “And whether we can a political consensus in America to get it done”, Kaufman wrote.
“Well, I think we have to keep talking about it”, she continued. The group met with Biden to discuss the 2016 race on Wednesday evening at Biden’s official residence, said a person familiar with the meeting, who wasn’t authorized to speak to reporters and requested anonymity.
Biden has been publicly non-committal on his plans.
Outside Biden’s tight circle of advisers, many Democrats have long assumed that, beyond personal and family considerations, the biggest factor in the vice president’s decision-making involved Clinton’s political vulnerability.
Vice President Joe Biden might well have also realized there might not have been as much room for him on that stage as he once thought – and quite possibly there might no longer be the urgency or need for his candidacy that many once felt there was. However, candidate Bernie Sanders enjoyed the most post-debate support. A strong debate performance by both Clinton and Sanders may have given Biden new pause about running. The first filing deadlines in a few states are just weeks away and Biden now has no operation in key states.
Advertisement
Biden’s supporters say he could point to his decades in the Senate, especially his years chairing the Foreign Relations Committee, to counter Republican arguments that he would simply be an extension of Obama’s world view. Besides, we argued, Biden’s candidacy would force Clinton to better answer questions and better prepare the eventual victor for the grueling general election season to come.