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> From: "Mackler, Alexander" <Alexander_S_Mackler@ovp.eop.gov>
> Date: January 21, 2015 at 9:25:54 AM EST
> To: "'smacklera@gmail.com'" <smacklera@gmail.com>
> Subject: Fw: 2016 Clips
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> Joe Biden Says 'There's a Chance' He Might Run for President
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> National Journal
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> Joe Biden isn't closing the door on 2016.
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> On Good Morning America on Wednesday, George Stephanopoulos asked the vice president if there's a chance he will challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. "Yes, there's a chance," Biden responded. "But I haven't made up my mind."
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> And in an interview on NBC's Today, Biden added, "I think I could do a good job."
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> But don't expect Biden to make that decision any time soon. Biden said on ABC: "I don't think you have to make up your mind until the summer," adding that the presidential race is "wide open on both sides."
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> Biden would have some serious catching up to do if he ultimately decides to run for president. Not only is Clinton miles ahead in the polls, she is already assembling a formidable campaign team that includes longtime associates and former Obama aides. Meanwhile, Biden has not yet made any concrete preparations to launch a White House bid.
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> But of all the potential Democratic presidential candidates, Biden might be in the best position to give Clinton—whom he called a "competent, capable person and a friend"—a run for her money.
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> Joe Biden hints at challenging Clinton in 2016
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> Politico
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> Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he might challenge Hillary Clinton for the party’s nomination in 2016.
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> “Yes,” Biden said, laughing, when asked if there’s a chance that he’d challenge Clinton.
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> “There’s a chance, but I haven’t made my mind up about that, we’ve got a lot of work to do between now and then. There’s plenty of time,” Biden said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
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> Biden said Clinton, who leads early polls of Democrats by double digits, is “really competent capable person and a friend.”
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> He added that he doesn’t think a decision on a bid needs to be made “until the summer,” noting that the race is “wide open on both sides” and repeated that his focus right now is his duties at vice president.
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> Also appearing on “CBS This Morning,” Biden downplayed the reports of shots fired near his Delaware home over the weekend.
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> “No, I’m not worried,” the vice president said when asked if he had any security concerns following the incident.
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> Earlier this week, the Secret Service said multiple shots were fired outside Biden’s Delaware home at about 8:25 p.m. on Saturday night. There were no reports of injuries, and an individual was questioned later in the evening.
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> Biden noted that his house “is way off the road” and there is “no evidence it was shot at the house.”
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> He repeated that he’s “not at all worried,” noting that four shell casings were found 100 yards away from his house.
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> “So a car must’ve been going by at a fairly high rate of speed. It appears someone on the passenger’s side fired a gun, and my house is on the driver’s side,” he said.
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> “So you don’t think anybody’s trying to get you?” anchor Gayle King asked.
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> “No, I don’t,” Biden said, before adding, “At least not physically.”
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> Vice President Joe Biden hinted at a 2016 presidential bid Wednesday, saying that he thinks he could do a good job as commander in chief.
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> “There is a chance,” Mr. Biden said on ABC, he’ll challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. “I haven’t made my mind up about that.”
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> He added that the race is wide open for both Republican and Democratic candidates, and said he doesn’t need to make a decision until summer.
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> On NBC, Mr. Biden expressed confidence in his ability to do the job but said that’s not his focus now.
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> Biden Says There’s ‘a Chance’ He’ll Run for White House in 2016
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> U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is leaving the door open to a possible 2016 White House bid.
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> Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday that he sees the contest for the Democratic nomination for president as “wide open,” even though former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- widely considered a front-runner -- has yet to announce her candidacy.
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> “Yes, there is a chance,” Biden, 72, said in the interview. “But I haven’t made my mind up about that. We’ve got a lot of work to do between now and then. There’s plenty of time.”
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> Biden said he wouldn’t decide until summer about another bid for the presidency. He said Clinton is “really competent, capable person and a friend.”
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> “I think this is wide open on both sides,” Biden said in the interview a day after the president’s State of the Union address to Congress. “Right now my focus is getting implemented what the president talked about last night: to nail down this recovery and get the middle class back in the game.”
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> In 1988 and 2008, Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nod but dropped out both times. In the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama selected Biden to be the party’s vice presidential nominee. Both won re-election in 2012.
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> “The person who is going to be the next president of the United States,” Biden said in the interview, “is the one who is going to be able to articulate the clearest vision to the American people of where they’re going to take the country.”
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