{"id":59199,"date":"2016-12-06T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59199"},"modified":"2016-12-06T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:54:24","slug":"just-when-you-thought-the-democrats-couldnt-get-any-more-delusional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59199","title":{"rendered":"Just when you thought the Democrats couldn&#8217;t get any more delusional!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article\">Biden: I&#8217;m Going to Run for President in 2020<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBy Solange Reyner<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Joe Biden might not be calling it quits just yet.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old told reporters Monday he was &#8220;going to run in 2020 . . . for president,&#8221; and, when probed further, paused before saying he was not counting it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not committed to anything,&#8221; he told reporters, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/308895-biden-raises-possibility-of-2020-presidential-bid\"><strong>per The Hill.<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp1\" class=\"inline-dfp\"><\/div>\n<p>Biden thought about running in 2016 but dropped out in late 2015 after deciding he could not mount a winning campaign following the death of his son, Beau, to cancer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfpTV\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As my family and I have worked through the grieving process,&#8221; he said then. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said all along that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president. I&#8217;ve concluded it has closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former U.S. senator campaigned for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and ran for president in 1988 and 2008. In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/06\/politics\/joe-biden-regrets-not-running-for-president\/\"><strong>he told CNN<\/strong><\/a> he had regrets about not entering the race, but &#8220;it was the right decision for my family and for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Joe-Biden-2020-presidential-election\/2016\/12\/05\/id\/762327\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Joe-Biden-2020-presidential-election\/2016\/12\/05\/id\/762327\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden: I&#8217;m Going to Run for President in 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}