Vice President Biden: Well, first thing I’d like to do, and you’re being very polite the way you’re asking me the question because a few people have written that, you know, Beau on his death bed said, “Dad, you’ve got to run”, and, there was this sort of Hollywood moment that, you know, nothing like that ever, ever happened.
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“I’ve never run a negative political ad in my life”, he said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
“I think Bernie Sanders seemed to have a course correction in the [Jefferson Jackson] dinner from one in which he said he wasn’t going to go negative to – to obviously focusing his, you know, his fire on her”, John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”.
He used the interview to play down suggestions his announcement not to run, made at the White House on Wednesday with President Barack Obama at his side, included a jab at Mrs Clinton. “I believe the huge sums of unlimited and often secret money pouring into our politics is a fundamental threat to our democracy and I really mean that”, Biden said. “The only reason to run is because…”
Had Dowd included the fact that Beau Biden had long championed for his father’s presidential ambitions, perhaps she wouldn’t now be at the center of this hubbub.
Asked what he wanted to do in his last months in the White House, Biden immediately answered that he wants to promote the fight against cancer.
“What I was saying is if we are going to make a few progress in dealing with these horrific massacres that we’re seeing, is that people have got to start all over this country talking to each other”, the senator stated. “That’s how close it is”.
“I will make no bones about that”, he said. I’m exhausted of the stranglehold that women have had on the job of presidential spouse.
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley says he didn’t enter the presidential race because he either dislikes or wants to attack either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, but he still tackled both Monday morning.
Clinton name-checked the gun lobby, but her remarks were aimed at Sanders, who has referred to all the “shouting” about gun violence numerous times on the campaign trail.
‘No, I think I was disappointed, ‘ Jill Biden said. That was a reference to Washington, all of Washington’. Instead, he intends to focus on solidifying the Obama administration’s achievements as he heads into the past year of his vice presidency, a promise he also asserted in his Rose Garden address.
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“I haven’t been shouting, but sometimes when a woman speaks out, a few people think it’s shouting”, Clinton told the dinner audience.
