Biden Associates Resume Discussion About Presidential Run

Michael Thornton, a Boston lawyer and longtime Biden supporter reportedly said in an interview, “He was so close to Beau and it was so heartbreaking that, frankly, I thought initially he wouldn’t have the heart”.

Biden’s path, should he run, would not be easy.

Joe Biden has previously said that he’d likely make a decision about whether or not to seek the presidency by August.

The Wall Street Journal story that he son Beau, Delaware’s former Attorney General who died of brain cancer, told his father that he wanted him to run before he died was a plant.

Dowd also wrote that Biden’s other son, Hunter, “also pushed his father, telling him, “Dad, it’s who you are”. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, draws swelling crowds. Hilary Clinton has been consistently pulling high numbers in the polls. Biden is the only among that group who has not yet said whether he is running. As of Saturday, he had no trips planned to Iowa or New Hampshire in the coming weeks. “This is his time to figure it out”, the adviser added.

If he does, the run won’t be easy, as he would start off his campaign with nearly no support, which is much needed considering the growing strength of his main competitor.

Dick Harpootlian, a former chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party who has been outspoken in his wish for Biden to run, told ABC that Biden’s family seems more supportive than not of a run.

Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the U.S.-Ukraine Business Forum in Washington July 13, 2015.

Friends described Biden’s relationship with Clinton in the Senate as cordial and warm. The renewed focus on Biden comes amid some signs of weakness for frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton, including declines in her popularity in recent polls. He has had little interaction with a “draft Biden” group pushing him to run, and has yet to look for office space in early voting states or raise money for a potential bid. Fox News reported on the meeting. The president and vice-president embraced, after Obama said he considered himself and his family to have become honorary members of “the Biden clan”.

“He wasn’t testing the waters with me”, Susman said of Ricchetti.

A campaign for president would offer a diversion from grief, they say.

Biden is by no means a virtuoso campaigner.

According to The Times, Biden advisers have begun contacting uncommitted Democratic leaders and donors, as well as some who are increasingly wary of perceived vulnerabilities in Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.