Report: Biden Skipping Summer DNC Meeting This Week

Vice President Joe Biden talks with U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power as they attend a meeting between President Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Oval Office at the Whi... Vice President Joe Biden talks with U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power as they attend a meeting between President Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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Vice President Joe Biden plans to skip the summer Democratic National Committee meeting this week, and by extension, the chance to address its members ahead of his potential third presidential run, according to Politico.

A committee official confirmed to Politico on Sunday night that the five confirmed Democratic candidates will be at the Minneapolis gathering, which is set to begin Thursday, but Biden has not accepted his open invitation.

“The president and vice president always have an open invitation for DNC meetings. He would of course be invited as a candidate if he were to become one,” a DNC official told Politico.

This comes after reports that Biden returned to Washington to meet with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) while contemplating the viability of a presidential run.

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  1. pulls out the crystal ball I wonder what this could mean?

  2. He’s either running or he’s not running! And Hillary wiped her server.

  3. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    OmgOMGomgOMG!!!1!!!1 —palms start to sweat—
    Last week he spoke to Elizabeth Warren and THIS week he’s skipping the Summer DNC Meeting! OMG do you know what THIS MEANS? —fans self— It means that the scrappy kid from that hellhole of hellholes, that city on the edge of darkness, the place where angels fear to tread, yes my fellow TPMers, the city of SCRANTON, PA could be…maybe…facing off against the Mighty H R C in a Democratic mud fest to the DEATH!!!

    Or it probably just means nothing at all.

  4. With one of those sanitary wipes that seem all the rage these days. You know, the ones you find near the toiletpaper [/sarcasm mode off]

  5. Maybe Joe’s sayin’ it ain’t so.

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