The Daily 202: Biden Boomlet Turns Serious as Veep Weighs Options Against Hillary - Washington Post
THE BIG IDEA by Paul Kane: So, just how much time does Joe Biden really have to decide whether to enter the Democratic presidential race. Officially, the vice president’s advisers say he will decide by “the end of summer” whether to run. Biden stoked more intrigue over the weekend when he made an unplanned trip to Washington to huddle in his residence with Sen. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday night that Biden was “leaning toward” a run if “it is still possible he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date, people familiar with the matter said. ” Meanwhile, Biden chose Kate Bedingfield — a former spokeswoman for John Edwards’ 2008 presidential campaign — as his new White House communications director. Bedingfield was vice president for corporate communications at the Motion Picture Association of America. Recent history has not been kind to late-entry candidates (Rick Perry, August 2011. Fred Thompson, early September 2007. Wesley Clark, mid-September 2003). None of them, however, were a sitting vice president with universal name recognition. So, we wait for Biden. The first Democratic debate is Oct. 13, and Biden has a standing invite, but only if he’s an announced candidate by then. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
