Let me say up front, I think the DE-Sen race is wide open and Chris Coons can emerge victorious. However, Joe Biden is now saying Beau Biden’s decision not to run was made around Thanksgiving:
Vice President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that New Castle County Executive Chris Coons will “surprise the devil out of” election watchers in the contest for Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware.
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Asked on MSNBC whether Beau had bowed out of a Senate campaign because the political terrain was just too unfavorable for Democrats, the vice president said that’s not how things went down: “He basically made that decision at Thanksgiving. It’s a question of how it got rolled out.”
Really? It sure would have been nice for Beau Biden to tell the party that he was leaning against running 2 months ago. The long delay in making the decision sure screwed Chris Coons out of 2 months of fundraising. I don’t think party officials were aware of this decision either since I kept hearing from them that Beau was running. Something is fishy here.