Joe Biden considering bid for US presidency

Vice President Joe Biden’s associates have resumed discussions about a 2016 presidential run after largely shelving such deliberations during his son’s illness and following his death earlier this year. He publicly said he would make a decision at the end of the summer.

The vice president himself has not authorized any specific moves, but nor has he objected, a signal Biden confidantes take as suggesting he’s serious about potentially challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

Still, “Biden’s advisers have started to reach out to Democratic leaders and donors who have not yet committed to Mrs Clinton, or who have grown concerned about what they see as her increasingly visible vulnerabilities as a candidate”, the Times reported.

On Saturday, Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that “The 72-year-old vice president has been having meetings at his Washington residence to explore the idea of taking on Hillary in Iowa and New Hampshire”.

“He’s not going to have the time to put an infrastructure, put an operation out there, so we just believe that from Day One he should have his army ready to go”, said Will Pierce, Draft Biden’s executive director.

“Partly because of the very deep reservoir of support we’ll find among Obama supporters, bundlers and donors, I think the Biden campaign will be able to tap into that overnight”, he said.

“Dad, I know you don’t give a damn about money”, Beau said, according to the Times column.

Final month, that it was the want of Biden’s late son, Beau, and his youthful brother, Hunter, that their father make yet one more run for the White Home.

Biden, 72, had been a presidential hopeful twice, in 1988 and 2008. Yet even inside his sprawling constellation, affectionately known as “Biden World”, deep divisions exist over the wisdom of him making another bid for the presidency. Biden is the only among that group who has not yet said whether he is running. Momentum for a Biden run hasn’t slowed, organizers say, as Clinton begins laying out policy positions in early voting states.

Susman, who has already made the maximum donation allowed in the primary, of $2,700, to Clinton’s campaign, and who is a longtime friend of the Biden family, dismissed any implication that he was discussing the vice president’s plans.

Biden has been slowly returning to a normal schedule following the death of his son two months ago.

An aide to Clinton disagreed with that assessment in an interview with Fox News, saying there has not been any change or new focus on Biden.

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