Biden’s late son urged him to run for U.S. presidency

According to Dowd, when Beau Biden realized that he was dying of brain cancer, he attempted to get his father to promise he would run. “I’ve known Steve Ricchetti for a long time.’ But Ricchetti is Joe Biden‘s top guy”. He trails Clinton in national and local horse race polls.

Biden has twice before run for president. The Vice President previously said he would make a final decision at the end of the summer, but CNN reported Friday that he is likely to wait beyond August to announce anything. So the calls inevitably turned to a second reason that Biden was on the line, which was to gauge how many of his wider clan still wanted him to seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

The support Biden has garnered speaks to growing concerns among Democrats that Clinton could lose in Iowa and New Hampshire, as the populist message of one of her opponents, Sen.

Joe Trippi, a Democratic strategist told The New York Times: “The reality is it’s going to be a tough, even-Steven kind of race, and there’s that moment when a lot of party establishment would start exactly this kind of rumble: ‘Is there anybody else?'”. He sees the Clintons as far more interested in cash and clout than in doing good.

A spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign declined to comment.

A Quinnipiac University poll released this week showed Hillary Clinton easily leading her Democratic contenders in the 2016 primary.

By contrast, the same poll found that Biden’s favourability rating reached its peak in seven years with 49 percent, with 58 percent saying he cares about them.

He added that it was a ” strictly a personal meeting” and when pressed on whether he may raise money for Biden, he said, “I’m not planning anything. Confidants say they expect him to make something official by early September.

Vice President Joe Biden could be aiming to drop the “vice” from his job title. During his first run, his candidacy was bogged down by allegations of plagiarism, and he quickly folded his campaign.

Sources close to the vice president or his aides have reportedly said talk of a 2016 run is intensifying in the Biden camp.

Among the potential moves are efforts to restart a moribund fundraising operation, launch a new political action committee, and find a way to channel the energies of a “Draft Biden” movement that’s now not being led by Biden insiders. Momentum for a Biden run hasn’t slowed, organizers say, as Clinton begins laying out policy positions in early voting states.

A Biden candidacy could also present an awkward situation for the vice president and Clinton, considering their close relationship. I’ve now confirmed it with Mr. Susman. The affable vice president has been in Washington for four decades, and he is that rare man who has never worn out his welcome.

Biden is by no means a virtuoso campaigner. A fundraiser is planned in Los Angeles next weekend at the home of Dr. Howard Mandel, a prominent Democratic donor.