But she did not, at least until this past weekend, seriously anticipate the competition would include Vice President Joe Biden.
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Iowa state Rep. Bruce Hunter of Des Moines, who endorsed Biden during his 2008 campaign and has met in person with the vice president several times since, said that “there’s been a lot of unofficial groundwork – people like myself waiting for a decision before we do anything”.
But pressed on whether Biden should actually jump into the race, a dozen Democratic members said that it would be a personal decision for the vice president, and left it at that.
Without Biden in the race, Clinton leads her main challenger Sen. The vice president’s younger son, Hunter, also encouraged him, Dowd wrote. The paper reported on Saturday that Biden “and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign”.
US Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly considering entering the 2016 presidential race, a move analysts believe would throw up a fresh challenge to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s second bid for the top post.
It would be Biden’s third attempt at the presidency; he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008. During his first run, his candidacy was bogged down by allegations of plagiarism, and he quickly folded his campaign.
“I don’t think that he’s going to be that effective as a campaigner”, the outspoken Republican business mogul said.
“He’s probably looking at this and saying, ‘Why not me?'” David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, told NBC Monday.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presently leads the five-person subject, however her earlier giant margins have been slipping to Vermont unbiased Sen.
“I have incredible admiration for him”, Sloan said. His law offices are on the list of Biden’s top career contributors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Biden, political strategist Lara Bergthold told The Hollywood Reporter, never “had a huge fundraising base in Hollywood to start with, and HRC has gotten a huge head start”. Hillary Clinton is also harmed by the fact that were no bigsignature accomplishments during her tenure as Secretary of State-ones that could serve as a counter-narrative and provide some ballast for an argumentthat says at the end of the day questions about the email server and the restare minor points that pale in comparison to substantial worldachievements.
“So you can’t really ask for much more than that”, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said on CNN on Sunday.
Almost all of those big givers already have committed to Clinton and made seven-figure contributions to her campaign effort.
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“Biden’s style has not been to run that sort of a campaign”, Goldstein told AFP. Hillary Clinton has had 23 years in the spotlight since that time, and the scandals in which she’s mired are related to public corruption, not private relationships. The Iowa caucuses are set for February 1 and the New Hampshire primary is scheduled for February 9.??
