According to Dowd, Biden’s decision was prompted by the dying wish of his son, Beau Biden.
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“We’ll let him make his decision”, Palmieri said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources”. One thing that we know about the vice president, he’s resilient. Last week, more than 100,000 people RSVP’d to attend one of 3,700 events across the country, but his support continues to be concentrated in liberal, urban centers.
The challenges for Biden to enter the race would be considerable.
“Her numbers are going down drastically, so somebody like Biden could probably go in and do very well and maybe win”, Trump said on ABC’s “This Week”.
In what seemed the most telling sign that the vice president may have decided against a run, the Clinton campaign brought on Ron Klain, a close Biden confidant, to help Mrs. Clinton prepare for the Democratic debates. He actually is weighing how this is able to influence his family, he stated.
But the recent death of his oldest son, Beau, from brain cancer made the 72-year-old vice president consider another bid for the White House. Alcorn traveled consistently with Beau and served as a political confidante. Much of the inspiration, the Times reports, comes from Biden’s son Beau, who passed away in May.
While in New York, the vice president’s chief of staff was spotted having breakfast with Lou Susman, a major Democratic donor.
Biden’s first campaign in 1988 ended in heartbreak after news reports that he plagiarized parts of a speech and exaggerated his academic record forced him to drop out. But individuals familiar with the meeting said Susman and Ricchetti are longtime friends and that Susman initiated the meeting. And Biden polls worse than Hillary in head-to-head match-ups with leading GOP contenders: Whether Biden could take Hillary out is also an open question; he’d be a major underdog, but polling suggests that his potential support would come disproportionately at her expense.
In his second run in 2008, he continued to struggle and eventually lost the nomination to Obama, who later picked him as his vice presidential nominee.
Though starting with a strong momentum, favourability rating for Clinton dipped recently as the former Secretary of State was grappling with negative news coverage, including her controversial practice of exclusively using personal email account and server while working as the US top diplomat.
“I hate the way they waste our money”, he said of the federal government. A fundraiser is planned in Los Angeles next weekend at the home of Dr. Howard Mandel, a prominent Democratic donor.
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“The president ultimately wants Democratic voters to decide who they believe the nominee should be”, Earnest said, when asked what Obama would like to see.
