Joe Biden’s late son Beau urged him to run for president
The political local weather might be evolving to Biden’s favor after a report final week that two inspectors basic are launching an investigation into for presidency communication when she was secretary of state.
The dramatic death bed exchange was revealed in a piece published Saturday by New York Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd.
Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly taking a fresh look at challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president.
Questions about Biden’s 2016 plans come not long after the death of the vice president’s oldest son, Beau, who died in May following a battle with brain cancer.
Dowd also wrote that Biden’s other son, Hunter, “also pushed his father, telling him, “Dad, it’s who you are”.
Reports of a tense relationship between the Obamas and Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have persisted throughout the Obama presidency.
Biden, a long-term US senator from Delaware, ran for president in 1988 and 2008.
News of a Biden run could galvanize a Democratic Party that has had trouble building momentum – or gaining many headlines – in a crowded playing field dominated by a news cycle obsessed with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
“Joe Biden knows what Beau wants”.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is continuing to assess whether to run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, and will probably make a decision next month, according to a person with knowledge of his thinking.
BUT Biden has yet to tell his staff whether he will run or personally ask them to do any planning for a potential campaign.
And The New York Occasions reported earlier this month that as he’s possible weighing a bid. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows him placing third in a Democratic primary match-up, with 13 percent of voters saying they would vote for Biden.
According to the Times, Biden has yet to make up his mind, and he could still decide not to run.
“As the Biden family continues to go through this hard time, the vice president is focused on his family and immersed in his work”, Barkoff said. “There was never any discussion of the presidential campaign or money”. The talk inevitably drifted to 2016, and many of these Democrats urged Biden to seriously consider getting into the race, said people with knowledge of the talks who agreed to discuss private conversations only without attribution.