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Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run (possibly with Elizabeth Warren)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 8-24 | By Carol E. Lee and Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 08/23/2015 10:13:53 PM PDT by dennisw

A surprise weekend trip to Washington to meet with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), a darling of the party’s liberal wing, represented a pivot from potential to likely candidate, one Biden supporter said.

Vice President Joe Biden, who has long been considering a presidential bid, is increasingly leaning toward entering the race if it is still possible he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date, people familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Biden is weighing multiple political, financial and family considerations before making a final decision. But conversations about the possibility were a prominent feature of an August stay in South Carolina and his home in Delaware last week, these people said.

“The vice president has not made a decision about his political future,” Biden spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said. “

Mr. Biden would enter as a clear underdog. Polling shows Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton running far ahead of the vice president, who would be building a campaign team largely from scratch. Mrs. Clinton, who declared her candidacy four months ago, has a robust campaign operation and an outside super PAC raising money on her behalf.

“Donald Trump is shaping the contours of the race,” GOP strategist Kevin Madden said. “He’s controlling the tempo of this race and the other campaigns can’t cede that power to him.”

Still, the vice president’s deliberations illustrate how both major parties’ campaigns are in a state of flux. Democrats are increasingly insecure about Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, given her dipping approval ratings and continuing questions about her use of a private email server while secretary of state. Republicans, meanwhile, are struggling to find the proper tone in reacting to Donald Trump, whose no-holds-barred campaign style is dominating coverage of the GOP contest and nudging top contenders into uncomfortable sound bites.

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1 posted on 08/23/2015 10:13:53 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
RUN JOE RUN!!!!!
2 posted on 08/23/2015 10:14:39 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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oh please run Biden and Warren.

Cruz or Trump would eat Biden alive in a debate.

3 posted on 08/23/2015 10:15:09 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: dennisw

I and a mentally-retarded midget stripper could beat that ticket, much less Trump/Cruz or similar...


4 posted on 08/23/2015 10:17:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: dennisw

Ditto to that old FRiend!!

You know, I still have that Windows 2000 CD you sent me back in the day, thanks once again! ;)


5 posted on 08/23/2015 10:20:06 PM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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To: dennisw

Biden has to run. Democrats smell the blood of the Hildebeast.


6 posted on 08/23/2015 10:20:27 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe they could throw in some midget bowling or dwarf tossing into the mix, too?


7 posted on 08/23/2015 10:21:54 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: dennisw

If Biden picks fakeahontas as his running mate, he clearly lacks the intelligence to be prez. its incredible hed even think of the phony injun squaw Ps: haven’t we had enough of a “leader” with a falsified identity these last 6.6 years?


8 posted on 08/23/2015 10:22:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I could sell that on pay-per-view.


9 posted on 08/23/2015 10:24:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: dennisw

How could he run for the nomination with a running mate?


10 posted on 08/23/2015 10:24:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Lizzy can talk about the papers Joe plagarized and chant out “Joe, you didn’t write that!. If it weren’t for the protections and infrastructure society built up for you, wandering hordes of ferals would have come around and made you write your own paper! That’s what savages do!! Is that the kind of world we want to live in?”


11 posted on 08/23/2015 10:38:29 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: dennisw

The Lone Danger and Squatto


12 posted on 08/23/2015 10:41:12 PM PDT by Bobalu (See my freep page for political images.)
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Just wondering could Biden pick Obama as his running mate?


13 posted on 08/23/2015 10:45:52 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: mkjessup

“old FRiend!!”

as soon as you said that I was thing about that 2000 CD :) Halifax NS


14 posted on 08/23/2015 10:48:09 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: 4rcane
Just wondering could Biden pick Obama as his running mate?

How about with Moochelle as VP?

15 posted on 08/23/2015 10:49:37 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

Why would she need him?


16 posted on 08/23/2015 11:04:12 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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she needs him to make a combined IQ of 10


17 posted on 08/23/2015 11:31:01 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: faithhopecharity
Why wouldn't he. He plagiarizes his own life story and she plagiarizes her ancestry. It is a match made in Democrat politics.

The crazy Uncle and Aunt!

They cal the Republicans a clown car.

18 posted on 08/24/2015 12:36:28 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: dennisw
“old FRiend!!”
as soon as you said that I was thing about that 2000 CD :) Halifax NS


lol, I'm sure glad to be out of there, holy smokes if there was ever a backwater, that's it, now happy to be back in West-By-God-Virginia where slowly but surely the natives are wising up about the 'RATS, more people are sneering at the name 'Robert Byrd' and they realize that Jay Rockefeller was NOT their buddy, lol

Have a good week!
19 posted on 08/24/2015 1:34:30 AM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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To: dennisw
I agree.

Biden will be an easy take-down for Trump.

(BTW, Biden's about as likable as Hillary.)

Pocahontas might be harder, but neither is a match for Trumpus Maximus.

20 posted on 08/24/2015 2:08:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("The politicians scattered like roaches" ~Ann Coulter" (Insult to roaches ~SB))
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