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brooklynite

(94,594 posts) Wed Nov 23, 2016, 08:57 AM Nov 2016

Joe Biden wont run for Democratic Party chair

Source: New York Post

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden closed the door Tuesday on the possibility of leading the Democratic Party after leaving the White House next year.

Biden’s name has been floated in recent days among Democratic insiders looking for someone with the stature and position to lead the party out its electoral abyss. Democrats urging him this year to run for the Democratic National Committee chairmanship had said his appeal to white, working-class voters might help the party refocus after losing badly among those voters to President-elect Donald Trump.

“The vice president is not interested in being DNC chair, but he intends to remain deeply involved in helping shape the direction of the Democratic Party moving forward,” his spokeswoman, Kate Bedingfield, said.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/11/23/joe-biden-wont-run-for-democratic-party-chair/

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Joe Biden wont run for Democratic Party chair (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2016 OP

Offff course not. retrowire Nov 2016 #1

Wise decision bucolic_frolic Nov 2016 #2

Plus 1,000,000 Auggie Nov 2016 #3

DNC Chair is a truly thankless task at this point. Joe will be happier and more productive... Hekate Nov 2016 #4

Biden and Obama will be MUCH more productive for Ds in the private sector. Sunlei Nov 2016 #5

retrowire

(10,345 posts)

1. Offff course not.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 09:16 AM

Nov 2016

Facepalm*

bucolic_frolic

(43,178 posts)

2. Wise decision

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 12:24 PM

Nov 2016

Not taking anything away from Joe Biden's abilities, popularity, competence

it requires younger energetic blood. Wisdom only takes one so far, and to
stereotype it, an elder statesman would be viewed as a ceremonial head
rather than an activist one.