His name is Will Pierce, and he’s the executive director of the political action committee called Draft Biden 2016.
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Axelrod, a former senior advisor to President Obama and one of his 2008 campaign advisers, said he has spoken with Biden about how hard the loss of his son has hit him. As CNN puts it, “Conversations this week with people close to Biden, from his home base in Delaware to Washington and beyond, suggest agreement on three points: He has not made up his mind”. Biden has been dispatched many times when some of the President Obama’s policy priorities have been stalled on Capitol Hill.
The president and vice-president embraced, after Obama said he considered himself and his family to have become honorary members of “the Biden clan”.
According to a Quinnipiac University Swing State survey, a majority of swing state voters believe that Clinton is not honest and trustworthy to be the president of the country.
The comments are the latest to fuel speculation about a Biden bid.
“I have no knowledge of his asking me or other people at this time to support him for president”, said Louis Susman, a Democratic donor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom Susman, in a telephone interview Saturday, said the subject of a Biden run was not discussed when he breakfasted recently with Biden chief of staff Steve Ricchetti – a meeting that some news outlets cited as evidence of Biden’s potential interest in running. We’ve seen, basically, American getting back to work, and that’s who the vice president is. However, Clinton’s favorability ratings have been sliding in recent weeks.
According to Dowd, when Beau Biden realized that he was dying of brain cancer, he attempted to get his father to promise he would run.
While Biden has done little to lay the groundwork for a presidential campaign, he has maintained a loyal network of political advisers and has gone out of his way to stay in contact with longtime supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Among those who say Clinton is their first choice, he’s the clear leader as a second choice, with 50% of Clinton backers saying Biden’s their next pick. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination, has been attracting large crowds with a liberal economic message, evidence of a hunger within the party for an alternative to Clinton’s candidacy. Can Vice President Joe Biden compete and how?
All of these personal elements make Biden a contender in the Democratic primary and that is reflected in the polling.
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If he wanted to take on the colossus in the Democratic field, Hillary Clinton, wouldn’t he have to jump in early and start making his case to the party that he’s the better bet?
