Bidens gathering to weigh Joe’s possible presidential run

Biden has defended the deal publicly, and lobbied Democratic lawmakers a year ago to give Obama fast-track authority. His long record will come in to focus, she stated, together with his questioning of Anita Hill throughout Clarence Thomas affirmation hearings.

Clinton credited the organization with influencing her views. The vice president’s office declined to speak on record about this matter; an inquiry to Politico Editor Susan Glasser, Dovere and a Politico spokesperson has gone unanswered.

“There’s a difference between potentially being a candidate – and being a candidate”, McCaskill said Tuesday.

The months since then have been dominated by “will he or won’t he” speculation as his support in the polls has risen and putative Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has struggled to cope with the controversy over her private email server. “I think there’s a lot more scrutiny and a lot more criticism when you’re an announced candidate”.

Clinton has been hit hard by the questions about her personal e-mail server. States such as New Hampshire, Texas and Florida have deadlines as early as November. Recent reports indicate Biden is likely to make a decision within the week about whether he’ll get into the race. The next day, Allen reported that even if Biden decides in the coming days that he’s running, “the announcement could be delayed”. “The vice president’s story is synonymous to so many Americans”. “That would do it for him“, Matalin said Tuesday on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV. “He knows that very well”.

Then-Arizona Rep. Mo Udall, a Democrat, was a favorite of reporters in the 1976 Democratic campaign because of his dry wit; the title of his memoir after that bid failed was Too amusing to be President, adopting the judgment of a conservative columnist.

To wit: Politico ” s Mike Allen published a genuinely hilarious report Monday marketed as containing two pieces of in-demand information: that Biden is expected to make a decision on his candidacy this weekend and that he is supposedly leaning toward entering.

A few Democratic supporters of Clinton agree. “There’s homophobes still left… majority are running for President, I think”. When the Erik Wemple Blog first read Dowd’s column back in August, we’d assumed that Biden had passed along this story, if only because of one consideration: How many other folks witnessed this heart-to-heart exchange between Biden and his dying son? “It simply is a different dynamic”.

Another Arizonan, Sen. John McCain, a Republican, gained similar status among the press corps in his unorthodox 2000 campaign.

Biden planned to speak Wednesday to union officials and organizers, many of whom are mounting an aggressive campaign to block the pact, known as TPP.