In 2008, Joe Biden talked with reporter Nicole Gaudiano about his political future. It turned out nothing like he'd predicted. Now he says he expects to run for re-election in 2024. Could his plans change?
is still motivated by his agenda, his obligation to the country and doing whatever it takes to keep former President Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office.I'm only asking because on January 3, 2008, I was the young reporter who plopped down near a hot dog stand at the Polk County Convention Center in Des Moines so I could pound out what I thought was hella hot news about his plans to stay in the race, only to see the value of that story vanish within hours.
as someone who"had been covering Biden's trifle of a campaign for one of the few newspapers still interested."By that stage, it's true that Biden's crowds had grown, but their numbers had nowhere to go but up. Thereone particularly large crowd in August at the LumberKings minor league baseball field in Iowa. However, they were there for Hillary Clinton and they started leaving when it was Biden's turn to speak.
It was actually newsy in 2008 — at least for several hours — that Biden was pledging to keep his campaign going through the end of the month, given that his prospects looked so dismal leading up to caucus night against the star power of Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama, who ultimately won that contest.
Asked about becoming secretary of state, he first rejected the idea, but then seemed to open the door ever so slightly:"I'd have to be convinced that the nominee, the Democratic president, we really shared the same kind of views," he said.
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Biden says he plans to run for reelection in 2024, but here's one reporter's lesson from 2008 on why anything is possibleIn 2008, Joe Biden talked with reporter Nicole Gaudiano about his political future. It turned out nothing like he'd predicted. Now he says he expects to run for re-election in 2024. Could his plans change?
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