Dr. Jill Biden – who accompanied President Barack Obama on a trip to Macomb County in September – will speak next Saturday, October 24, at Cobo Center in Detroit at the National Federation of Democratic Women Midwest Regional Conference and Issues Conference, the vice president’s office confirmed Friday. An optimistic campaign. A campaign from the heart. Democrats tracking Biden’s deliberations have predicted that he would not know the answer to that question by the time he had to make a final decision.
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Schaitberger declined to comment on the call, saying he does not discuss private conversations.
Mr Kaufman, a longtime Biden confidant, served as his chief of staff in the Senate and was appointed to replace him when Mr Biden became vice president. “He has been in public and political life a long time and he has a good grip on the mechanics around this decision”.
“If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead”, Mr Kaufman said.
Dear friend, A lot of you are being asked, and have asked me, about the direction and timing of the Vice President’s thinking about a run for President.
For his part, Biden has been silent on the issue for weeks while allowing his own self-imposed deadlines to fly by.
A handful of influential labor unions have not yet endorsed a Democratic candidate, including global unions representing the firefighters, steelworkers, SEIU and Teamsters.
Biden will not be there, but 48 percent of Democrats surveyed in the Reuters poll wish he were a candidate, compared with 30 percent who said he should stay out.
As far as Obama was willing to go was to offer praise for Democrats on their display of party unity in Tuesday’s debate, a not-so-subtle dig at a Republican field roiled by divisions. It’s remembered for being a break-out moment for Obama in 2007. Biden joining a race would make it closer in nature to the chaotic Republican one.
Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Walter Mondale will visit GW on Tuesday, according to a University release.
The overnight reviews on Clinton were extremely positive – perhaps somewhat too positive, as is sometimes the case with debates.
Vice-President Joe Biden is either playing coy with his intentions, or is genuinely torn about whether he wants to run in the 2016 election.
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To get on the primary ballots in all 50 states, the vice president would have to announce his candidacy by November 6, ABC News reports. Those who know the vice president say that a few days are better than others for him, as they are for other family members.
