“I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of…an endorsement in the Democratic primary”, Earnest told reporters, adding that Obama planned to vote in the primary election in Illinois, the state he represented as a senator before entering the White House.
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Aides to Biden and Warren declined to comment, but the vice president is reportedly assessing his chances in a Democratic presidential race that now features Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb.
After the 2008 primary race between Obama and Clinton, the two turned their political rivalry into an alliance.
Bedingfield – whose first day at the White House is Monday – previously worked at the Motion Pictures Association of America, where she was the Vice President of Corporate Communications.
But she has been dogged by a long-running controversy over use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State, a matter which is being looked into by the FBI.
Biden’s former Senate colleague Lindsey Graham, who was also campaigning in New Hampshire Monday, weighed in as well.
Asked if Biden should run, Brown said: “You are asking me presidential advice”.
Biden has run for the top spot twice previously, once in 1988 and again in 2008, but neither bid was successful.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have a lot to catch up on.
Biden is said to be reaching out to top Democrat donors across the country. The meeting – which Biden requested and changed his schedule to attend – was the strongest sign yet that the vice president is becoming more serious as he considers a potential bid for the White House in 2016.
“Sources continue to speculate about something they know nothing about”, Biden spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said. He said nothing to discourage a run by Biden, who is 72. The vice president is consulting with a close circle of longtime advisers, though there are said to be divisions within that group about whether he should run. The two camps are keeping their efforts largely separate, with Rasky and others who would be on the official campaign side talking with bundlers, operatives and others more generally about their interest in a Biden campaign. Much of his legacy is contingent on a Democratic president maintaining his policies on immigration, health care and climate change, as well as the nuclear agreement with Iran.
Hillary Clinton is a weirdly synthetic candidate.
She has repeatedly said that she neither sent nor received classified email and argued the investigation is not a criminal probe.
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“I think Joe Biden would be fun to run against, frankly”, Trump responded.
