2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBranstad: Biden 'Dead Meat' For Iowa Voters
CATHERINE THOMPSON DECEMBER 19, 2013, 8:29 AM EST
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) is throwing cold water on Vice President Joe Biden's presidential prospects. Biden is dead meat out here, Branstad told CNN Wednesday in an interview. He is not going anywhere.
Branstad told CNN he wasn't all too familiar with what the first-in-the-nation caucus state's Democratic voters prefer in a candidate. But he was sure that any presumed candidate associated with Washington, D.C., be it Biden or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would face an uphill battle in his state.
Washington, D.C. is extremely unpopular, the governor said. Biden is so associated with this administration and all of its failures. He was unpopular before and he is even less popular now.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found that just 29 percent of Iowans thought Biden would make a good president, compared with 53 percent who said Clinton would make a good chief executive.
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bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)It all depends on how Obama's second term ends up.If Biden is winnable
CurtEastPoint
(18,647 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,555 posts)Rotten stinking GOP crap is what they don't care for.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Beacool
(30,249 posts)Stay classy, governor.