Biden had continued to run for his senate seat as well as for vice president as permitted by delaware law. The obama biden ticket won 365 electoral votes to mccain palin s 173 and won 53 of the popular vote. On november 4 2008 obama was elected president and biden was elected vice president.
On august 23 2008 via text message the obama campaign announced that the then presumptive democratic presidential nominee chose joe biden as his vice presidential running mate. It s biden it was later reported that obama told kaine in breaking the news to him you are the pick of my heart but joe biden is the pick of my head. Biden declined obama s first request to vet him for the vice presidential slot fearing the vice presidency would represent a loss in status and.
Joe biden ran for president of the united states in the 2008 election shortly following biden s withdrawal from the presidential race barack obama privately told him he was interested in finding an important place for biden in his administration. He was a mixed race intellectual whose father was from kenya. Obama s overriding political weakness wasn t hard to pinpoint.
When barack obama was cruising to the democratic party s presidential nomination in 2008 he chose someone who buttressed his political weakness. Find yourself another joe biden. Former obama adviser david axelrod said over the weekend that the sexual assault allegation leveled against joe biden did not come up in 2008 during the obama campaign s vetting process for.
Joe biden and former president barack obama appear together in a new ad hyped by the biden campaign where they mock president trump for failing to take responsibility for the coronavirus. Former vice president joe biden speaks after he received from then president barack obama the medal of freedom during an event in the state dining room of the white house january 12 2017. In biden s latest campaign efforts obama.
Former president barack obama sat down with presumptive democratic nominee and former running mate joe biden in a discussion on the future of america. The 2008 presidential campaign of joe biden the longtime senator from delaware began when biden announced his candidacy for president of the united states on the january 7 2007 edition of meet the press he officially became a candidate on january 31 2007 after filing papers with the federal election commission if elected biden would have been the first sitting senator and roman catholic. The 2008 presidential campaign of joe biden the longtime senator from delaware began when biden announced his candidacy for president of the united states on the january 7 2007 edition of meet the press he officially became a candidate on january 31 2007 after filing papers with the federal election commission if elected biden would have been the first sitting senator and roman catholic.
