Former US Vice President Joe Biden continues to make it exciting: at a major political event in his home state of Delaware, he appeared yesterday (local time) quite like a US presidential candidate, but left it open whether he applies for the presidential candidacy of the Democrats , Hopes, however, made his followers a telling slip of the tongue.
Nearly a thousand Biden followers and leading Democrats prepared a euphoric reception for the 76-year-old at a dinner in Dover. Biden said it was time to rebuild the US „backbone“. A political „consensus“ was needed to help the country outgrow the poisoned atmosphere of Republican US President Donald Trump.
„Come on, Joe, come on“
„Our policy has become so mean, so narrow-minded, so vicious that we can not govern ourselves, in many cases can not even talk to each other,“ Biden lamented. He himself was „criticized by the new left“. He said he was the most progressive „of anyone who competes for the (…),“ Biden added, then interrupted himself. „Anyone who would compete,“ he added. A murmur went through the crowd. Some Biden fans started shouting, „Come on, Joe, come on“. „I did not mean it that way,“ Biden replied with a laugh.
Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. The 76-year-old is considered a promising candidate for the presidential candidacy of the US Democrats in 2020. However, the field of applicants is already very large with 15 candidates so far.
Sun threw among other senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and former Housing Minister Julian Castro their hat into the ring. On Thursday, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke officially announced his bid. To determine the presidential candidate, priming elections will be held in all 50 US states in the first half of 2020, followed by a nomination convention in the summer.
