But the ad also comes at at a time when his political team is on the offensive, denying a report that Biden leaked his son’s deathbed wish that he would run for the oval office.
Advertisement
Only Biden, he said can determine what his moment is, the strategist said.
Clinton’s campaign did not respond to IBT questions about whether she supports or opposes the Obama administration’s proposal to rescind the student debt provisions of the Biden-backed law.
Josh Alcorn, senior adviser to the Draft Biden committee, told The Hill that the the request came from vice president. Most people wrongly believe that the nation’s civil rights laws already protect LGBT people, resulting in the current impasse.
Vice-President Joe Biden has garnered considerable good will from the U.S. public following the death earlier this year of his son Beau of brain cancer at age 46.
As reported on Monday by New York Magazine, Clinton was beginning to ready opposition research attacks against Biden.
Biden’s staff has strongly refuted the allegation.
A new TV ad from “Draft Biden”, the group trying to persuade Vice President Joe Biden that he should enter the presidential race has political observers buzzing.
Claire McCaskill of Missouri privately noted that Biden-the-candidate will be treated far differently than Biden-the-lame-duck-vice-president, according to two attendees who asked not be named because such meetings are supposed to be off the record. “It will be up to you in this changing world to translate those unprecedented capabilities into a greater measure of happiness and meaning, not just for yourself but for the world around you”, Biden is heard saying.
The joke was a knock on the job once held by Hillary Clinton, his potential Democratic rival. “I’ve said I want anybody supporting me to go after Republicans”.
As he strode onstage to swelling music, thunderous applause and cheers and whoops from the audience, Vice President Joe Biden was a rockstar – at least for the night.
Its fundraising arm includes a few of Obama’s former bundlers, like Yolanda “Cookie” Parker, a Los Angeles technology executive who raised more than $2 million for the president’s two campaigns, reports the Washington Post. “But he has seen the ad and thinks the ad treads on sacred ground and hopes they don’t run it”.
Draft Biden, a national Super PAC, produced the commercial, which focused on Biden’s ability to overcome personal tragedy. As a Delaware senator, Biden was one of the key proponents of legislation making it more hard for Americans to reduce their student debts in bankruptcy court.
Advertisement
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: New Calls for Biden Run; Campaign Ad Pushes VP to Join Campaign].
