Biden To deliver statement in Minutes. Will Not run for President in next year's election
Source: CNN Breaking
Vice President Joe Biden ended months of intense speculation about his political future on Wednesday by announcing he wouldn't seek the presidency, abandoning a dream he's harbored for decades and putting Hillary Clinton in a stronger position to capture the Democratic nomination.
With President Barack Obama at his side in the White House Rose Garden, Biden said the window for a presidential campaign "has closed."
The question of whether Biden, 72, would enter the race has consumed Democrats for months. His announcement follows a period of deep -- and public -- soul searching about whether to run for the White House while grappling with profound personal grief after his son, Beau, died this summer from brain cancer.
The prospect of a run seemed to decline further after Clinton's commanding performance at the first Democratic presidential debate on October 13. Her poised demeanor and deft handling of tough questions left many analysts convinced that Clinton effectively froze Biden out of the race.
His decision means that barring unexpected developments, Biden's long political career, which includes nearly 40 years in the Senate and two terms as vice president, will end along with the Obama administration on January 20, 2017.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/joe-biden-not-running-2016-election/index.html
still_one
(91,965 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)flamingdem
(39,304 posts)I'm tired of this waiting game.
Doesn't make sense that Obama would be so undermining as to announce with Biden regardless. Looks like Biden got the attention he wanted and maybe he was a backup until Benghazi and the first debate were cleared.
still_one
(91,965 posts)might not be correct?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Lincoln Chafee LOL
Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)William769
(55,124 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Sad......
still_one
(91,965 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I love Joe and I think he made the right decision.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)still_one
(91,965 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)please leave his name out?
still_one
(91,965 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)still_one
(91,965 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)still_one
(91,965 posts)Curtis
(348 posts)and believe he would have been a great president. However, the time is not his now as Bernie is the man. Thanks for being a class act Joe. You and your family are the class of what American politicians should strive
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)free education, working with the world community, getting money out of politics, income inequality, holy shit....do i smell a biden endorsement of bernie?
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I do not think we should take it as an endorsement though.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)i guess time will tell.
still_one
(91,965 posts)endorse anyone during the primaries
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)i guess i never noticed before.
still_one
(91,965 posts)until the primary is over.
It might have been different if Biden was running, but I doubt it. Both Biden and Clinton were part of the Obama administration, and I don't think he would want to make an endorsement of one over the other, and at the same time ignore Bernie supporters. So I don't see it
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)to keep those kind of opinions to themselves. then again, they keep cia secrets.....
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)still_one
(91,965 posts)Democratic nomination, whoever that is
onehandle
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Beacool
(30,244 posts)AP-GfK Poll: Clinton seen as most likely winner if nominated
WASHINGTON (AP) The vast majority of Democrats have a favorable view of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that shows her recovering lost ground within her own party since the summer.
And among all major candidates for the presidency, she's viewed as most likely to win next November if she is nominated.
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/21/ap-gfk-poll-clinton-seen-as-most-likely-winner-if-nominated/21251958/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1643451591
As for Biden, he made the right decision and he just finished giving a lovely speech.
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still_one
(91,965 posts)administration in some capacity
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Make no mistake. I love Joe. He's always a class act in my view, and I think he's one of the few in politics who really thinks about things and puts the good of the country before his own interests.
I think he made the right decision for several reasons. One, being that I think it would appear too divisive were he to contest Hillary, and two, because I really do feel that he and his family need time to heal. When I look at this man, I see very real pain and anguish over the loss of yet another family member. I wish him well.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)I can't imagine losing one's spouse and a young child to yet suffer the loss of another child years later. He needs to grieve and a presidential race is not the venue for grief counseling. I wish him, Jill and the rest of the family all the best.