Joe Biden 2016 Election

Biden says does not know if family can handle a 2016 bid

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday night he still hasn’t sorted out whether he and his family can handle a 2016 presidential race.

“The honest-to-God answer is I just don’t know,” he said, answering a question from former Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat after a foreign policy speech at a synagogue here. “I can’t look you straight in the eye and say now, ‘I know I can do that.’”

Joe Biden’s hope-and-pray South Carolina strategy

Top Democrats in the state are so unnerved by Hillary Clinton’s inability to get beyond her email controversy that they say the vice president's on-a-wing-and-a-prayer strategy isn’t hopeless.

Joe Biden thinks he can win South Carolina. And that victory, he believes, would hurtle his campaign into a rally toward the Democratic nomination no matter who has already taken Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Clinton's lead drops further as interest in Biden grows

Hillary Clinton's lead among Democrats nationwide is continuing to recede, according to the latest nationwide Monmouth University poll released Tuesday morning.

The poll was conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 2, via landlines and cellphones, surveying 339 registered Democratic voters and those who lean Democratic. The margin of error is plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.

Find out more at : http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/poll-hillary-clinton-lead-2016-joe-biden-213401

Standing in for Obama: Joe Biden

The vice president fills in for Obama with an African leader as the president tours Michigan with the VP's wife.

Vice President Joe Biden presided over a ceremony with a small West African nation on Wednesday, filling in for the man whose job he wants — as that man spent the day with Biden's wife.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-africa-213464#ixzz3ltFcCErB

Biden takes his pre-campaign to Clinton’s turf

The vice president is picking at the damaged front-runner and testing a progressive message.

Joe Biden’s jumping right into Hillary Clinton’s sandbox — and New York Democrats are eager to see him play.

Find out more at : http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-takes-his-pre-campaign-to-clintons-turf-213482

Biden to court Black Caucus

Continuing his pre-presidential campaign, Vice President Joe Biden will head to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation convention in Washington this weekend, according to sources familiar with the planning.

Find out more at : http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-attend-congressional-black-caucus-foundation-213589

Joe Biden: Donald Trump's 'sick' message is xenophobic

Donald Trump's campaign remarks about Mexican immigrants represent a play to the worst parts of society, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday.

Speaking at a reception marking Hispanic Heritage Month, Biden laid into the businessman turned GOP front-runner -- naming him twice -- as reverting to "xenophobia" in a play for votes.

Find out more at : http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-hispanic-voters/index.html