Joe Biden-Elizabeth Warren Ticket Could Transform The 2016 Election
After months of private deliberations and consultation with his family, Democratic party activists and potential campaign donors, the 72-year-old Biden is now “increasingly leaning” towards challenging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their party’s presidential nomination, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The vice president sounded out political activists in South Carolina during a recent vacation. More intriguingly, Biden arranged a private meeting last Saturday in the vice president’s official residence with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a rock star among liberal Democrats. Biden reportedly returned to Washington, D.C., from his home in Delaware to meet with the freshman Democrat for lunch, discussing a wide range of political and policy topics for nearly two hours. According to NBC News, the two delved into the state of the Republican and Democratic contests, but Biden did not directly seek Warren’s endorsement – at least not for now.
Warren, a champion of consumer protection and a bitter critic of Wall Street, gave serious thought to seeking the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination before deciding against it – much to the disappointment of a vigorous “draft Warren” campaign mounted by liberal Democrats and progressives. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Democratic socialist, subsequently picked up the liberal mantle and has run an impressive campaign that has drawn some of the largest crowds of any candidate. But Warren has yet to endorse Sanders or anyone else for president. There has never been much love lost between Warren and Clinton, who is from the moderate wing of the party and whose long-standing relationships with Wall Street businessmen and other wealthy interests have grated on Warren. In an interview on Sunday in Boston, Warren told WBZ-TV’s Jon Keller that she was not committed to any one Democratic candidate. And in an apparent reference to Clinton, Warren said that “I don’t think anyone has been anointed.”
The idea of a Biden-Warren alliance – or perhaps even a Biden-Warren ticket -- would almost certainly shock and energize the party and provide an interesting mixture of political experience and progressive ideas. It would also force party leaders and rank and file Democrats to make a brutally tough reassessment of the state of the campaign, especially among those who worry about the mushrooming scandal surrounding Clinton’s handling of State Department emails and those who doubt Sanders could win a general election if nominated. Biden, should he run, likely would appeal to traditional, older Democrats, civil rights groups and union households. Warren, 66, while hardly a millennial, nonetheless would draw strong support from younger Americans and college students who are fascinated with her ideas to change the country and bolster economic and educational programs for the middle class.
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