{"id":507,"date":"2003-08-11T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/507.html"},"modified":"2003-08-11T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T19:06:48","slug":"biden-isnt-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/biden-isnt-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden isn&#8217;t running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On-again, off-again presidential candidate Joe Biden made it official today &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A44099-2003Aug11.html\">he&#8217;s not running<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this late date, everything would have to fall perfectly into place and I would have to put on hold what influence I have in the United States Senate in pursuit of what is now too much of a long shot,&#8221; Biden said via a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, a decision of this nature is intensely personal, and my experiences have taught me under such circumstances to follow my own instincts,&#8221; Biden added. &#8220;At this moment, my instincts tell me that the best way for me to work to enhance America&#8217;s national security and to fight for economic security for the middle class is to remain in the United States Senate. From there, I will also attempt to influence the positions taken by my party&#8217;s nominee on these issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Biden out and Al Gore continuing to insist he won&#8217;t be a candidate, the field will probably only grow to 10 (only 10!) if Gen. Clark jumps in next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On-again, off-again presidential candidate Joe Biden made it official today &#8212; he&#8217;s not running. &#8220;At this late date, everything would have to fall perfectly into place and I would have to put on hold what influence I have in the United States Senate in pursuit of what is now too much of a long shot,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}