When Beau Biden realized that he was going to die amid a battle with brain cancer earlier this year, he sat down with his father and asked him to make a promise: Run for president in 2016. Seventy-two percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said they are satisfied with their choice of candidates, potentially leaving some wiggle room for Biden.
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Palmieri played down recent polls that have showed that voters find her boss, 67, less than trustworthy. That is what our next guest is hoping for, anyway. Much of the inspiration, the Times reports, comes from Biden’s son Beau, who passed away in May.
“We’ll see what happens”. Is he actually more likely to run today than he was a few weeks ago?
Biden’s staff has been reaching out to Democratic leaders and donors to hold “hushed phone calls and quiet lunches” weighing a potential run, reports the Times.
PIERCE: It’s not wishful thinking. One thing that we know about the vice president, he’s resilient. And that’s one reason why I support the vice president.
Biden already is the beneficiary of a draft movement, and wouldn’t have to start his campaign from scratch. Her campaign has a well-established ground game.
“She has the most money, and she’s beating every Republican in most of the polls”.
Biden is all Democrat all the time and it is hard to imagine him upsetting the apple cart in an election cycle that all but anoints Clinton as the Democratic nominee, but 2016 is not about Clinton’s turn in line.
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The former first lady, ex-US senator and former secretary of state – an attorney by training – is sometimes criticized as being lawyerly and evasive. And that’s just who the vice president is.
Beau was losing his nouns and the right side of his face was partially paralyzed. Aside from rising panic over Hillary Clinton’s falling poll numbers and Bernie Sanders’ increasing appeal to voters across the political spectrum, what are the implications for 2016?
PIERCE: I think it is emotionally feasible.
The efforts are being met with support from those who say Biden could energize the Democratic primary, providing a formidable opponent to Clinton. And I think that’s true. “I will expect to be on the stage”, said Former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), Presidential Candidate.
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“Finally Biden may jump in as Hillary slips nearly daily”, the News Corporation founder and executive chairman tweeted.
