Biden reportedly ‘more likely than not’ to enter 2016 race

“For him, this is not an opportunistic question, so I don’t think he can afford to give the impression that it’s all opportunistic”, Shrum said.

“It’s my sense that this is happening unless they change their minds, ” a person who spoke to Biden’s aides last weekend told the newspaper.

On the sidelines of the climate summit, Biden planned to meet privately with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon and mayors from other major USA cities, an individual familiar with the meeting said.

A group of left-wing financial backers released a letter Friday, obtained by Reuters, calling the Obama-Biden Administration a “spectacular success” and pledging their support if he decides to run.

He called for a military buildup so broad that no foe would challenge the United States , as well as a new health care deal for veterans stuck on waiting lists in hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

While giving due credit to the industry itself, he said, “Since the President and I took office – not because of us, but I hope we helped – solar power generation has increased 20-fold, and it’s exponentially increasing more now”. It’s about a sick message.

“The reality is the VP has been a pretty active stumper for the president“, he said.

“I can’t say he’s a good friend anymore”, he said, smiling, “because he lives in Iowa, and that means I’m doing something“.

Biden invited a bunch of Hispanic leaders to the vice president’s residence on the grounds of Naval Observatory.

Biden has made no secret of the fact that barely three months after his son died from brain cancer, waves of grief still wash over him at moments not always predictable. Part of that effort is a program to study ways to reduce the cost of solar power installations, something Biden highlighted during his speech.

A similar effort by liberal Democrats to encourage Warren to take on Clinton for the party’s nomination failed earlier this year.

“Detroit is resilient. It’s tough and defined by a work ethic that is unmatched by any place in the world”, the vice president said.

Biden, making the sign of the cross as he hurried away from the podium, said “Oh no, no, no, no, no” as if to stave off the topic. Americans have assets that allow us to seize the moment-advanced skillsets, an economic system that is agile, and we can solve problems. “The more people that know about solar…imagine the jobs, imagine the net savings”.

At the same time, Biden has kept up an intensive travel schedule, crisscrossing Florida, Georgia, New York and now California, stops that have done little to quell speculation that he’s laying the groundwork for a potential campaign.

Biden was in the Los Angeles area in late July to speak at a North Hollywood business in support of a minimum wage hike and attend a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in Beverly Hills. In our view, a subsequent director will have to be Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley have also pledged bold action on climate change as they court Democratic voters and donors attuned to environmental issues.