The New York Times has reported Vice President Joe Biden is actively considering running for president in 2016.
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The White House had no immediate comment on Biden’s plans and the Times quoted a spokeswoman for Biden as saying: “As the Biden family continues to go through this hard time, the vice president is focused on his family and immersed in his work”.
Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware and a US military veteran who served in Iraq, died in May of brain cancer at the age of 46.
According to the report, Biden’s advisers have reached out to several leaders of the Democratic Party and donors who have not publicly endorsed Clinton.
Much of the communication was restarted following the death of Biden’s son, Beau, in May, as supporters offered condolences and urged a closer look at a presidential run.
“Hillary Clinton’s our candidate now”, he added. Even so, he has been weighing a potential candidacy for some time.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month it was the wish of Biden’s late son, Beau, and his younger brother, Hunter, that their father make one more run for the White House.
Biden has twice before run for president.
A recent Quinnipiac University national poll showed Biden has higher favorability ratings than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, as well as the entire Republican field.
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Reports of a tense relationship between the Obamas and Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have persisted throughout the Obama presidency. “But I’ve had indications that maybe he does want to – and ‘that’s what Beau would have wanted me to do.'”.
