President Obama told the press, after choosing Biden to be his vice president, that it was the best political decision he had ever made.
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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”.
Her campaign is spending $2 million of that money to launch biographical television advertisements starting Tuesday in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“People love to come to the Park City “ATM” and have a fundraiser and leave”, Utah Democratic Party Executive Director Lauren Littlefield said.
Biden is known for his passionate, unscripted presence on the campaign trail, a trait that endeared him to voters but has also landed him in hot water for his inartful, at times offensive, comments.
Thus far, the vice president has, unusually, sealed his lips on such a possibility, despite the deathbed wish of his son, Beau, who died earlier this year after a valiant fight against brain cancer.
When Biden ran for president in 2008, for example, he raised about $8.6 million before dropping out, following a poor performance in Iowa. Clinton’s campaign has staffs in place in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, and hired 51 temporary field operatives to recruit volunteer bases and court influential Democrats in the other 46 states.
Barack Obama won the White House on the strength of a massive groundswell of black voters – something that won’t likely repeat itself in 2016. In Quinnipiac poll, she received support from 55 percent of respondents, compared to Biden’s 13 percent.
It would be Biden’s third attempt at the presidency; he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008.
Sources familiar with Clinton’s schedule said she is expected to arrive in McAllen sometime Friday and meet with Democratic legislators from across the state for a meeting whose objective could not be immediately determined. “Since Day One, we’ve scheduled in a reasonable major with the use of Hillary herself attempting to generate every decision and, in the end, the nomination”.
Clinton’s case for claiming the Oval Office is being hurt by growing scandals related to Clinton’s private email server, her role in burying bad news about the Benghazi terror attack just weeks before the last presidential election, and foreign donations to her family foundation.
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But, Aitken said, “My gut feeling is that he will run”. “So you can’t really ask for much more than that”. On Monday night, Graham called on Clinton’s infidelity to suggest Hillary Clinton could not be trusted in the White House.
