Biden? Clinton? Obama ducks questions on 2016 race

“If he decides to run, we will need each and every one of you – yesterday”, Kaufman says temptingly, alluding to the breakneck speed at which Biden would have to ramp up a campaign.

Biden himself teased the press earlier Thursday when he was repeatedly asked about whether he would run for president. Ted Kaufman said in an email to a list of “Biden alumn”. “And I think there were people in the White House – and I don’t want to name any names – who were constantly goading him and saying “the military is trying to box you in” and ‘the military is trying to trap you, ‘ ‘the military is trying to bully you.’ ‘The military is trying to make you do something you don’t wanna do'”. Draft Biden says it’s spending $250,000 to air the jobs-focused ad ahead of the debate and on Wednesday.

“He is determined to take, and to give his family, as much time as possible to work this through”, Kaufman said.

“Joe Biden’s time is sort of over, just as Barack Obama’s time is over”, said sophomore Preston Cox.

Maybe future debates could offer a different outcome, but after Tuesday night, it appears Democrats have no intention to do any harm to their front-runner, and the biggest loser wasn’t Lincoln Chaffe, Jim Webb or Martin O’Malley but moderate Democrats because their party continued to turn its back on them.

Sources are offering conflicting accounts of when Biden is expected to make his decision and announce it. One senior Democratic official tells CNN indications from the Biden inner circle are that the vice president will likely decide in the next three days.

Undoubtedly Biden will watch to see how Clinton fares.

In more than a dozen interviews over the past week, individuals close to the vice president described a man still wrestling with whether he and his family would be well served by campaign pressures while they continue grieving the death of Biden’s son in May.

Overwhelmingly, Granite State Democrats also said they believe Clinton has the best chance of winning a general-election matchup against the Republican nominee next year.

“Number Twos” have a tough road to the Oval Office.

“I thought the debate was fabulous”, said UNLV English Professor Timothy Erwin. “I think it’s natural and proper for candidates to run on their own vision and their own platform”.

“The vice president commended President Park for her efforts to improve inter-Korean ties and reaffirmed unwavering US commitment to deter and defend against North Korean provocations”, the statement said.