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The conventional wisdom is that Joe Biden has been staying on the electoral sidelines, waiting to see how bad the email scandal gets for Hillary. But while that might be true, consider that Biden need not just be a passive player in the game. One reason that President Obama might be holding off on giving his Justice Department free rein to go after Hillary is that he doesn't want to destroy the candidacy of the only plausible Dem candidate in the race. As brilliant and charismatic as is Lincoln Chaffee, still he might just not do. But what if Biden...

Friday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” host Carol Costello asked if Vice President Joe Biden enters the presidential race, would he “just be another white person running on the Democratic side?”

The vice president has been making clear that his family is fully supportive of him jumping into the 2016 race, according to people familiar with the calls. They are guided by the belief that he has the best chance of keeping the White House in Democratic hands and he could forever regret taking a pass at another shot at the presidency.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said President Obama distrusted the military, and “this was particularly true in Afghanistan” in an interview that was taped earlier in the week and broadcast on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Gates after discussing his doubts that President Obama believed in the mission in Afghanistan, and micromanaging of the military by the Obama administration was asked about the president’s suspicion of the military. He stated, “I think this was particularly true in Afghanistan, and I think there were people in the White House, and I don’t want to name any names, who...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden would run an optimistic and unscripted "campaign from the heart" based on restoring middle-class opportunity, one of his top political advisers said Thursday, laying out for the first time the argument Biden would make if he runs for president. Former Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, one of Biden's closest political advisers, said Biden would soon make a decision about whether to enter the race. In an email obtained by The Associated Press, Kaufman asked former staffers to stay in close contact and said Biden would need their help immediately if he enters the race. "If...

PPP's new Pennsylvania Senate poll fi nds that Pat Toomey continues to have weak approval numbers, and leads his potential Democratic opponents by only 3 to 7 points. Only 28% of voters approve of the job Toomey is doing to 43% who disapprove, with a lot (29%) having no opinion one way or another. Those numbers are consistent with where we've found him in our polling all year- he was at 30% approval in May and 28% approval in February when we polled the state. Snip General election match ups for President in Pennsylvania are a mixed bag. Hillary Clinton...

LAS VEGAS — In a brief conversation with Yahoo News on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman John Podesta said Vice President Joe Biden “needs to make up his mind about whether he wants to run or not.” Biden has said he’s considering throwing his hat into the ring and there has been widespread speculation the vice president is waiting to see how Clinton handles her testimony before the House Benghazi committee, which is scheduled for October 22. Yahoo News asked Podesta about this theory in the spin room ahead of Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate. Podesta said he doesn’t...

President Obama’s endorsement of a Joe Biden White House run will be conditional on having a “final say” over his choice for vice president, according to Ed Klein, author of the Hillary Rodham Clinton biography “Unlikeable.” “Barack Obama would like to see Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts and an African-American, run on the Biden ticket,” Klein told John Catsimatidis on AM 970 radio Sunday. Patrick, who served as assistant attorney general under then-President Bill Clinton, grew up in Chicago, Obama’s former stomping grounds. He succeeded Mitt Romney as governor of Massachusetts. Klein said that the first family is...

President Obama is refusing to say whom he will support in the 2016 presidential election, but that's not stopping him from pouring accolades on Vice President Biden, who is considering jumping into the race. “I think Joe will go down as one of the finest vice presidents in history, and one of the more consequential,” Obama said in an interview on “60 Minutes” on Sunday. “I think he has done great work.”

President Obama is refusing to say whom he will support in the 2016 presidential election, but that's not stopping him from pouring accolades on Vice President Biden, who is considering jumping into the race. “I think Joe will go down as one of the finest vice presidents in history, and one of the more consequential,” Obama said in an interview on “60 Minutes” on Sunday. “I think he has done great work.” When asked about whether he wants Biden to enter the race, the president said he will “let Joe make that decision.” Obama said he did not know Democratic...

President Barack Obama said Donald Trump was "the classic reality TV character" who had tapped into something real in the Republican Party but was unlikely to end up as president. "He is a great publicity-seeker - and at a time when the Republican Party hasn't really figured out what it's for as opposed to what it's against," Obama said of Trump during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" program airing on Sunday night. Opinion polls put Trump at the front of a crowded Republican field seeking the party's nomination for the November 2016 presidential election. The billionaire real estate mogul...

More and more leaks suggest that Vice President Joe Biden will enter the presidential race. But he would face a steep uphill climb if he does. The New Yorker reported Thursday that Biden representatives recently met with national Democratic Party staffers to discuss the rules and procedures that he he would need to clear if he entered the race. "I think it means he's running," a source told The New Yorker. "The deadlines for qualifying on the ballots for key states haven't passed yet, but are fast approaching." Politico further reported that Biden is looking at making a final decision...

**SNIP** Jarrett has denied that she leaked any damaging information about the Clintons. "I'm trying to light a fire under Joe," Jarrett is quoted as saying in the book, which claims Obama sees Biden as the best person to carry on his legacy.

**SNIP** But as questions about Clinton’s trustworthiness loomed, largely in light of controversy around her exclusive use of personal email while at the State Department, Aiken had a change of heart. Aiken said while he has “nothing but respect” for Clinton,” he worries that “a lot of (moderates) have negative feelings towards (her).” “I’ll get on a leaky boat going in the right direction before I’ll get on a strong boat going in the wrong direction,” Aiken said, “But I really want a strong boat next year on the Democratic side and I think Joe Biden is a better candidate.”

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Biden: 'If I Don't Move I'll Be Demoted To Secretary Of State Or Something' 5:00 PM, Oct 7, 2015 • By SHOSHANA WEISSMANN During the White House's Summit On Worker Voice on Wednesday, Joe Biden had a clear message for labor unions—that Hillary Clinton might not be a reliable ally, but he would be. His speech focused on his sympathies for the labor movement, his friendship with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and the like. He also hit Clinton, saying, "if I don't move... I'll be demoted to Secretary of State or something like that. [laughter from audience] THAT'S A JOKE."...

Vice President and prospective Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden denounced “the beating Hispanics are taking” from Republican presidential candidates during remarks at a fundraiser hosted by the Latino Victory Project on Tuesday.

If Joe Biden jumps into the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton will be ready to go on the offensive. According to a Clinton campaign source, a team of opposition researchers working on behalf of Clinton is currently digging through Biden’s long record in office to develop attack lines in case the vice-president runs. The research effort started about a month ago and is being conducted by operatives at Correct the Record, the pro-Hillary superpac founded by David Brock, which is coordinating with the Clinton campaign. According to the source, the research has turned up material on Biden’s ties to Wall Street;...

Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August. Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point in the presidential speculation.

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Vice President Joe Biden equated gender ideology with civil rights in a recent speech, at the same time calling marriage supporters homophobic. Gays and lesbians should not fear "those shrill voices" working to oppose homosexual "marriage," Biden said, because Americans "have moved so far beyond them and their appeals to prejudice and fear and homophobia." The potential Democrat presidential contender also took the occasion to attack the character of candidates from across the political aisle, stating, "There's homophobes still left – most of them are running for president." Biden used his remarks before...