The biggest one? Carving out a niche – and a reason for his candidacy – in a race that is being dominated by the former secretary of State.
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“It’s not too late, but it’s getting a little late”, said former Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Scott Brennan.
Cliff Owen/AP If Vice President Biden runs for President, he might very well wipe grin off Hillary Clinton’s face.
All the other reports on a possible Biden run were far less emphatic and relied mainly on sources both tentative and anonymous. But he had a mission: “He tried to make his father promise to run, arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values”, Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote. “That’s hard for Biden to do, and I’m also not sure there are a lot of people to her right in the Democratic Party”.
“It’s gut versus head”, said one Democrat with Biden ties who’s worked in New Hampshire.
Jeanne Zaino, a politics professor at NYU said the article describing the “deathbed confession from his son”, has certainly contributed to the speculation over a Biden run, but noted that “naturally a sitting VP is going to draw speculation”. The super PAC isn’t affiliated with Biden and his aides have said they don’t speak to the group’s leaders. “I would like to remember him as that, rather than the guy who ran for president three times and lost every time”. Biden’s son, Beau, died of brain cancer in May. But the trait is admired, especially by those irked by Clinton’s long-established penchant for caution.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Vice President Joe Biden walk back to the Oval Office after speaking about the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the nationwide availability of tax subsidies under Obamacare.
Like any independent organization not directly tied to the candidate himself, Draft Biden is limited in how much they can sway a decision to jump into the presidential contest. “No, you know, I think it’s more about Joe”. “I don’t think of Joe Biden from an ideological perspective”. The current Vice President “dominated the 2016 conversation on social media this weekend”, The Washington Post reported.
The widespread fondness for Biden in Democratic circles does not change the challenging political realities with which he would be faced, however.
But Mrs. Clinton’s allies do not hide their annoyance at the implication by Mr. Biden’s advisers and supporters that she is vulnerable, and ripe for a challenge from the vice president.
Biden’s probably opponent, Hillary Clinton, is displaying some weak spot which some see as a chance for a challenger.
Interesting enough, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton gave the same lecture as a senator in 2005, AJC noted.
Clinton’s coronation by lava flow hasn’t exactly inspired the feelings of a movement that Democrats still in withdrawal from Obama’s 2008 campaign are hoping for. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Biden receives 12 percent support.
Clinton, in addition, has already raised $45 million for her bid.
He said Clinton’s struggles to demonstrate her trustworthiness – while not fatal for the former secretary of state’s candidate – have created an opening for Biden.
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“What the vice president has said publicly is that a possible campaign for the presidency is something that he’s considering, and he anticipated that he would make a decision by the end of this summer”, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday.
