Vice President Joe Biden just sent a clear signal through his political team – get ready for a possible presidential run.
In a secret letter sent this week, a key Biden ally revealed that not only might Biden enter the presidential race soon, but he has a strategy prepared that he thinks could win. That could mean big trouble for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose polling numbers would suffer from a Biden entrance.
In a letter to former Biden staffers late Thursday, one of Biden’s closest advisers traced the contours of the argument Biden would make, and suggested a decision to run could be imminent.
“If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead,” former Sen. Ted Kaufman said in an email to a list of Biden alumni.
Kaufman, who served as Biden’s chief of staff for two decades before replacing him in the Senate, has been at the vice president’s side for months, brought back into the immediate fold after Biden’s son died in May. He and two other aides have formed a protective and tight-lipped ring around Biden as he ponders a 2016 campaign.
Although Biden’s small team has been drafting a campaign blueprint and screening likely staffers for months, the letter to Biden’s former Senate, White House and campaign aides marked the most direct call to date for support for a potential campaign. It came as a growing number of Democratic leaders, including Clinton’s campaign chairman, expressed frustration with Biden’s delays and questioned whether it was already too late.
Yet even in the face of such skepticism, Biden has remained actively engaged in feeling out a potential campaign, placing calls this week to key Democrats in early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, said several individuals familiar with the conversations. These individuals weren’t authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity. Still, they insisted that Biden had not yet made a final call.
In the letter, Kaufman didn’t identify specific policies Biden would propose if he ran. But in describing the approach the vice president would take, the letter drew an implicit contrast with Clinton, who has been criticized by some as a candidate for appearing calculated or overly choreographed.
“A campaign from the heart. A campaign consistent with his values, our values, and the values of the American people,” Kaufman said. “And I think it’s fair to say, knowing him as we all do, that it won’t be a scripted affair — after all, it’s Joe.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Just maybe he will spill the truth on Obama and Hillary He is an American after all maybe he will step up to save our country
Biden was on an illegal presidential ticket, so he’s an illegal VP right now! so how can he run for POTUS according to our constitution? Truth is, he can’t! But the truth and laws of this land never stops the Rat Party or liberals. Go figure!
He has been Obama’s right hand man for 8 years. IS ANOTHER 8 YEARS OF THIS WHAT WE WANT??? Anyone who would vote for a Democrat has got to be out of their minds.
He’d be a better choice than Obbey or Hitlery, but not by much.
With the election and reelection of Obama, liberals proved to the world that Americans are idiots and the left can run any candidate and win. If they run Biden, they’re just showing off.
Loved it! ..from one end of the spectrum to the other ..from bottom of the barrel to the heights of idiocy. Sorry Joe ..still love ya.
Why would any one want Biden for President when he has worked with the dictator Obama for almost 7 years. People need to get their heads out of their butts and start using their brains. This is no good.
We need our VicePresident JOE BIDEN running for the PRESIDENCY at soon.
I think Biden running for president is a GREAT idea.
It will help keep Hillery out by reducing her numbers even more.
Hillary has out grown her stay in Politics. She never takes responsibility for her actions. Everyone takes the blame for her. Her actions & behavior, she thinks or gives the impression she and her family are above the law and can do what they want when they want. She has been around Politics and the White House long enough where there are no more EXCUSES. She needs to retire permanently for the sake of this country. Heaven help us all if she gets the nomination or gets elected as the next Pres.
Needs to be tried and exiled to a third world country if in fact she is guilty of espianage
Democrats decided to choose someone other than Hillary in 2008. It may happen again. Whenever the voting starts we will see how strong Hillary’s support really is.
I have no interest in a Joe Biden presidency. Any of the Republican candidates would be a better president than any of the Democrat candidates. The Democrats have a disappointing field this time around. Adding Joe Biden to the mix will not improve the choices.
He looks like The Joker without his make-up.
BURNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT, 2016
FEEL THE BURN,
And they are ,
There is not one good apple in the bunch,
And there not for the working class ,Only to be come president and line there pockets .
They do a lot of talking but they have no intension of standing on there word
Take a real good look at them.
If you want another president like we have now .
vote bidin and bit the dust .
They rob us of our inhairtance in 2001 and created 911 to cover it all up .
Why has,nt anyone has no one brought this up .
Tell them about this Burnie We need to know,
It is now going on 15 years and no one got a dime of the billion that was to be give from the people in this country that it was to go to. from other countrys
Forine inheritance
Big “O” wants Uncle Joe to run. They both hate Hillary and will try to stop her. I think its great when the pigs start fighting among themselves!
Gee here I was hoping he was about to invoke the 25th Amendment and he and the Cabinet was going to remove the occupant of the White House as unfit.