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Rupert Murdoch Says Joe Biden 'Actively Preparing' to Run Against Hillary
Clinton

Newscorp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch knows a thing or two about
breaking news, and causing a stir on Twitter, but does he also have an
inside line on who is planning on challenging Hillary Clinton for the
Democratic presidential nomination?

On Sunday, Murdoch took to the social network to share his own insights on
how the Democratic field may be shaping up.

“Yes, there is a chance.”

Vice President Joe Biden

Murdoch gave no further details on how he had come upon the knowledge that
Vice President Biden, and possibly Clinton's successor at the State
Department, would challenge Clinton for the party's presidential
nomination. A Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-01-31/walker-surging-in-bloomberg-politics-des-moines-register-iowa-poll-as-bush-struggles>of
Iowa Democrats released over the weekend found Biden coming in a distant
third place to Clinton and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Biden received just
nine percent support in the poll, while Clinton was the first choice of 56
percent of those surveyed.

When asked last week by *Good Morning America
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-reveals-chance-challenge-hillary-clinton/story?id=28368686>*
host George Stephanopolous whether he would seek the Democratic nomination,
Biden left the possibility open.

“Yes, there is a chance,” Biden said. “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.”

Secretary of State John Kerry, who lost to George W. Bush in the 2004
presidential election, was much more resolute in a 2014 interview with CNN.

“I’m out of politics. I have no plans whatsoever, this is my last stop,”
Kerry told host Jake Tapper. “I’m going to serve the country in the
extraordinarily privileged position the President has given me, the great
challenges that I have, and move on.

Three days before Mitt Romney announced he would not seek the presidency,
Murdoch weighed in on whether the former Massachusetts governor should
attempt a third presidential campaign.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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