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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Cruz or Trump would eat Biden alive in a debate.
I and a mentally-retarded midget stripper could beat that ticket, much less Trump/Cruz or similar...
Ditto to that old FRiend!!
You know, I still have that Windows 2000 CD you sent me back in the day, thanks once again! ;)
Biden has to run. Democrats smell the blood of the Hildebeast.
Maybe they could throw in some midget bowling or dwarf tossing into the mix, too?
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?
I could sell that on pay-per-view.
How could he run for the nomination with a running mate?
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?”
The Lone Danger and Squatto
Just wondering could Biden pick Obama as his running mate?
“old FRiend!!”
as soon as you said that I was thing about that 2000 CD :) Halifax NS
How about with Moochelle as VP?
Why would she need him?
she needs him to make a combined IQ of 10
The crazy Uncle and Aunt!
They cal the Republicans a clown car.
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.
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