Despite her declining popularity numbers, Clinton continues to lead the rival Democrats by a wide margin. Although his campaign exceeded all of its goals on caucus night, the unprecedented wave of turnout that year meant that Biden’s campaign did not reach the 15% threshold needed in most precincts to accumulate delegates. He will not deflate the Bernie Sanders balloon.
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But Henderson did quote that there’s still a possibility for Biden to enter the race in August and build an organization that’s capable of competing in the early February Iowa assembly by November or December. Biden has indeed been pushed by old bulls like former South Carolina Democratic chairman Dick Harpootlian.
“I have incredible admiration for him“, Sloan said. Biden doesn’t have that-emotional affection for a person’s life story is not the same as passion for the cause of his candidacy. Both Clinton and Biden will be strongly tied to the Obama administration, are longtime veterans of national politics with near universal name recognition, and ran unsuccessfully in 2008.
The newspaper said Steve Ricchetti, Biden’s chief of staff, began talking to supporters in the months before the vice president’s son Beau Biden died in May at age 46. Just listen to how Barack Obama talks about him.
And in a political environment in which a tell-it-like-it-is character like Donald Trump has risen to the top of the Republican field, that might not be a bad thing. Tony Bisignano, who endorsed Biden in 2008 and 1998.
“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 told reporters at his daily news conference.
WASHINGTON Facing increased competition from within her own party, Hillary Rodham Clinton is spending $2 million airing the first television ads of her presidential race in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Her comments raise fresh doubts about how seriously Biden is considering a run for president.
“In most cases, they have grown out of an outpouring of sympathy for Mr. Biden since the death of his son Beau, 46, in May”, the Times reported, citing a column published by Maureen Dowd. The more electable Democrat at this moment: Biden or Clinton?
Clinton is due to testify before Congress on October 22, when Republican lawmakers will grill her about her role in response to the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks and her use of an unsecured personal email account while conducting State Department business.
She also has a head start in organizing.
Clinton leads with 58 percent, according to a RealClearPolitics poll aggregate.
“According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, a mere 34 percent of Colorado voters think she can be trusted; 62 percent do not. So you can’t really ask for much more than that”, she said.
Hillary Clinton, who will visit Cleveland later this month to rally her grassroots organizers, also will huddle with top-dollar donors while in town. That works magic in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.
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“This would be very challenging”, Pfeiffer said.
