Joe Biden’s meeting with Elizabeth Warren fuels presidential

The Newsmax report on the secret meeting between the VP and the senator says that Biden “has told friends that if he does run for president, he will serve only one term, making an early announcement of his vice-presidential running-mate a strong possibility”.

Democrats say Biden supporters are also quietly reminding influential operatives and donors that the vice president was ahead of both Obama and Clinton on some issues that are now cornerstones for the party, including gay marriage.

Requested if Mr Biden ought to run, Mr Brown replied: “If I have been Joe Biden, I might in all probability give it very critical consideration”. But I’ve had indications that maybe he does want to – and ‘that’s what Beau would have wanted me to do’. “I think the world of him, as do many other Democrats…”

“I have a great deal of respect for Vice President Biden, ” said Martin O’Malley, a Democratic presidential candidate. A question on a lot of minds this morning, is Vice President Joe Biden inching closer to a run?

If Biden’s not in by October 1, it will likely be too late, people who have spoken to Biden recently said.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN [D-MA]: Are you ready to get out there and fight?!

Biden would provide Clinton with stiff competition, but his path back to the White House is not entirely clear.

Politico said that if Biden decides to run, Obama would be in an nearly impossible situation.

Earnest reiterated, “It was, it was”, after a reporter followed up assuming that that naming Biden his vice-presidential pick was an even better one than naming Clinton secretary of state. CNN reports that a source inside the White House claims that there is little support for a Joe Biden campaign.

Vice President Joe Biden (right) has met with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (left) as he thinks about running for president.

Earnest, however, stopped short of indicating whom Obama would actually endorse as his successor: Biden – if he chose to run – or his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.

The potential candidate, 72, was originally supposed to stay in Delaware this weekend but returned to Washington to meet with the progressive darling in his residence at the Naval Observatory.

In the meantime his surge is very surprising compared to Hillary Clinton as well.

Republicans will need 13 Democrats in the Senate to get to 67 votes to override Obama. There, he’d offer contrasts with Hillary Clinton and deliver a larger rationale for his candidacy.

PETER ALEXANDER: Hey, Savannah, good morning to you.