WASHINGTON — Suspicious packages addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro were intercepted Thursday (Oct. 25), and investigators said they were similar to crude pipe bombs sent to former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and CNN.None of the devices exploded and no one was injured, but the packages, sent to prominent Democrats critical of President Donald Trump, underscored the heightened political tensions and fears two weeks before national midterm elections.Police said the package recovered in Manhattan addressed to De Niro, who dropped an expletive insult at Trump at this year's Tony Awards, was similar to the other pipe bombs recovered this week. De Niro had also apologized to Canadians for the "idiotic behavior of my president."Biden has also criticized Trump, as recently as last week, saying Trump may not "know what he's doing" and coddles dictators.A law enforcement source said the package addressed to Biden was intercepted at a Delaware … [Read more...] about Suspected mail bombs sent to Joe Biden and Robert DeNiro raise total to 9
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Joe Biden says he will decide whether he’s running for president by January
Christal Hayes USA TODAY Published 12:31 p.m. UTC Jul 18, 2018 Former vice president Joe Biden said on Tuesday he would decide whether he would run for president by January. While speaking at a forum in Bogota, Colombia, Biden talked about politics, President Donald Trump and the potential for a presidential run in 2020. He told CNN's Juan Carlos López, who was moderating the forum, that while polling data shows he could beat Trump, it might not mean anything. "I know I have to make up my mind and I have to do it by January," Biden said. He said that after the midterm elections in November he would hold an "altar call" and gauge whether a run would be successful, both in terms of financial and overall support. A poll last month showed Biden was the early favorite for the Democratic ticket in 2020, beating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. , and … [Read more...] about Joe Biden says he will decide whether he’s running for president by January
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton top 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in new poll
William Cummings USA TODAY Published 11:52 p.m. UTC Jun 27, 2018 With more than two years to go before the next presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden is the early favorite to represent the Democrats and try to unseat President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a new poll. Biden was the choice of 32 percent of Democrats in a Harvard CAPS/Harris June poll that was obtained by The Hill. The party's 2016 standard bearer, Hillary Clinton, came in second with 18 percent and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was third with 16 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was fourth with 10 percent of the vote. Biden, who would be 77 on Election Day in 2020, has been one of Trump's most vocal critics since the 2016 campaign. On at least two occasions, the former vice president has indicated that he wishes he was back in high school so that he could physically confront the president over his comments about women. (Trump responded … [Read more...] about Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton top 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in new poll
CBS News Logo Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton have long, complicated friendship
WASHINGTON -- Over the past quarter century or so, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Biden have collaborated and competed, shared more than a dozen staffers, fought each other for a presidential nomination and then served together in the Cabinet of the man who beat them both. Now, as Biden considers challenging Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, their long and tangled relationship is being tested anew. Both now find themselves elder statesmen in the Democratic Party -- Biden is 72, Clinton 67 -- and facing similar questions about whether they represent the party's future or its past. They've been linked in presidential politics before, and not just in the 2008 campaign when they lost the Democratic nomination to then-candidate Barack Obama. In late 2011, when Obama's re-election looked uncertain, his advisers secretly polled whether they should consider replacing the vice president with Clinton, who was then secretary of state. Four years later, it's Clinton's … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton have long, complicated friendship
CBS News Logo Hillary Clinton: “Nobody will love Scranton more than I will”
SCRANTON, Pa. -- Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton took a short detour on the campaign trail to stop by a place the vice president has talked about throughout his political career, his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he lived until he was in the fourth grade. Chatting with reporters, Clinton called Scranton an "amazing, incredible community." Asked whether it's conceivable that people who live there would vote for her opponent, Donald Trump, Clinton said "people get to make up their own minds, but nobody will love Scranton more than I will as president." She added that she would try to help Scranton in the same way Biden did when he represented them as senator -- "They called him, you know the, the third senator from Scranton," she said. Biden recalled that it was his second campaign, and joked that people used to say, "'Who does he represent -- Delaware or Scranton?'" CBS News' Drew Johnson contributed to this report. … [Read more...] about CBS News Logo Hillary Clinton: “Nobody will love Scranton more than I will”