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brooklynite

(93,840 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:25 AM Mar 2015

Joe Biden facing pressure to decide on presidential challenge to Hillary Clinton

The Guardian:

Joe Biden may come under pressure to decide whether he will challenge Hillary Clinton for the White House sooner than anticipated, as liberal anxiety has prompted multiplying grassroots supporters to wonder if the vice-president might be knocked from his perch of studied neutrality and into a presidential bid.

A third-party political action committee urging Biden to challenge Clinton from the left in the smoldering controversy over her email arrangements has ballooned tenfold in the past week alone, the Guardian has learned, even as advisers close to the vice-president insist that he will wait and see about a 2016 run they say he is still “seriously considering”.

Hints that the Democratic search for alternatives to Clinton may be more heartfelt than previously thought – an earnest progressive case for an Al Gore candidacy emerged last week, and the email controversy has created air pockets in Clinton’s popularity ahead of her expected run – has some eyes wandering anew in the direction of the current White House.

Now, with Republican candidates launching formal campaigns and the Clinton machine not far behind, Biden supporters are for the first time displaying organizational structure: a Draft Biden web site last week that has gone from a list of 2,000 supporters to 20,000 backers nationwide, director Will Pierce told the Guardian.
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Joe Biden facing pressure to decide on presidential challenge to Hillary Clinton (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2015 OP
YES! That looks promising! eom BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #1
There is no one named Hillary in the race yet 4139 Mar 2015 #2
Joe Biden would be nearly 74 years old when he would take the helm titaniumsalute Mar 2015 #3
This just another indication that the media want a democratic party primary bigdarryl Mar 2015 #4

4139

(1,893 posts)
2. There is no one named Hillary in the race yet
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:09 AM
Mar 2015

Hillary Clinton said she would announce the first of January but hasn't yet

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
3. Joe Biden would be nearly 74 years old when he would take the helm
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:13 AM
Mar 2015

I wonder if he even wants it? I was talking to my 67 year old dad about this last night and he said who the hell wants to be working, let alone become President, at 73 years old.

I'm not trying to be an ageist...it just seems that Biden hasn't exactly projected an excitement to run for President yet.

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