Posted on 04/18/2017 12:21:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Vice President Joe Biden seriously considered throwing his hat in the ring of the 2016 presidential campaign, but ultimately decided not to after the death of his son, Beau Biden, from brain cancer in May 2015.
In the new book “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (Crown, out now), the authors reveal that before Beau got sick, the Biden family was focused on the son’s future political prospects.
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“The elder Biden didn’t want to interfere with his son’s political ascent and worried that his own presidential bid would make it harder for Beau to win statewide office in Delaware [they would have been on the ballot at the same time if Joe ran for president and Beau ran for governor in 2016],” write Allen and Parnes.
When he was on his deathbed, his face partially paralyzed, Beau reportedly pushed his father to make a final run for the Oval Office. His son’s request made him consider again the issue of whether to run, something he’d been weighing for months, if not years.
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Weirdos.
If he ran we would be 100 or so days into a Biden Presidency amazing how many things had to fall in place for Trump
Libtards...typically... If only someone else....didn’t..... did......thought of....
Never NEVER themselves
Does Biden really care about a rebuke from Barry the manchild?
What a dope!
I wonder why Biden never ran for President...?
Oh, wait. He did!! Twice. And he got his butt kicked in the PRIMARIES.
What was silent about it?
It was public, loud, and humiliating.
This shows you how out of touch Obama was, as well as Hillary. Serves them right for only reading from their fawning media sources.
Biden can console himself with yet another failure of the serial loser, Hillary. Mrs. Clinton’s political career was born on third base yet she never could negotiate the final 90 feet against Obama and Trump.
That death bed story about Beau Biden telling his father to run for president with Beau’s dying breath sounds like absolute B.S. It sounds like a recreation of the George Gipp role played by Ronald Reagan in “Knute Rockne All American” in 1940. People dying of brain cancer do not know who is in the room, let alone give political pep talks.
Meh.
She wasn't that viable.
And these people took enormous delight in sabotaging Sarah Palin in 2008.
An act of God.
Very sad nonetheless. Perhaps other Godless demon-crats shall see the light?
Yep - unlike Hillary!, Joe is actually a likable sort. Not to mention that Joe’s blue collar bona fides might have put the rust belt out of reach for DJT.
No insider would have won in this cycle - let alone Obama's No. 2
Democrats are ghouls. Slow “j-o-b-s” Joe would have proudly used his son’s death to gain political points. Hillary spanked him and threatened to drop the full force of the Clintonista army on him if he challenged her. It was HER turn.
Best line in the article’’
“One trusted Hillary confidante said at the time: “I don’t know how he gets in without looking like he knocked over the only girl that’s been viable in our entire lives”
Girl ??? Girl ????? Hillary is a girl?
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I don't like him.
Leni
Time to put the plug in the jug. Blue collar bona fides? Biden has been in Congress since the 1970's. Blue collar bona fides? Biden gets < 1% in primaries running against democrat party hacks like Murray Steele and John Edwards. Oh, yeah . . we'd be 100 days into a Biden presidency . . 8-D
Well said. I thought it was a lie from the outset.
Biden is a dolt and would not have been able to raise anywhere near the amount of money necessary to win the presidency.
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