“Unfortunately, I believe we’re out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination”, said Biden.
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Most revealing, Sherman said, is how Biden closed his speech in an effort to “preserve his political capital”, which could come in handy should Clinton’s campaign eventually implode.
“While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent.”, stated Joe Biden, according to USA Today. “I will speak clearly and forcefully … on where we stand as a nation”.
But what was widely hailed as a command performance by Clinton in the October. 13 Democratic debate turned the tide back in her favor and quieted talk that she was vulnerable in her quest for her party’s nomination for the November 2016 election.
Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he was bowing out of the 2016 presidential race. A scrappy and loquacious public servant first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, Mr. Biden will leave the national stage in the No. 2 position – not bad for a once-stuttering kid from coal country. “It is personal”, he said, adding: “I know we can do this… because there are so many breakthroughs just on the horizon in science and medicine”.
Hillary Clinton later praised Biden, tweeting that she was “inspired by his optimism and commitment to change the world for better”.
Outlining a checklist of policies, Mr Biden named goals that the Obama administration hopes to achieve in its last 15 months in power, as well as dreams he would hope to achieve if elected to the nation’s highest office.
She is slated to testify before Congress on the issue on Thursday. While Biden outlined what his campaign message would have been, he also gave a glimpse of how he would have challenged Clinton.
Among Democratic candidates, there is largely agreement on Obama’s record, though Clinton has appeared more hawkish and split with the president on the Trans Pacific Partnership, a move that was cheered by big labor.
Sanders, echoing Biden in later comments, also knocked Clinton, saying he “would not use the word, quote, end quote, enemies, to describe fellow Americans”.
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In a statement, Mrs Clinton called Mr Biden “a good man and a great vice-president” and said she was confident that he would continue to be “on the front lines, always fighting for all of us”. Biden’s son, an Iraq War veteran and who before his death asked that his father make a third run at the presidency, died in May 2015.
