Speaking this week in Montana, former vice president Joe Biden pronounced himself the “most qualified person in the country to be president.” Lest anyone doubt that he is planning on running, he said he is consulting with his family and will make a final decision within the next six to eight weeks.
Thanks to his long résumé, Biden will start the marathon to win the Democratic presidential nomination at the head of a pack of as many as 20 candidates. In the first two post-midterm polls of Democrats —a Reuters/Ipsos poll in which he received 29 percent support and a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll in which he received 27 percent support — Biden was way ahead of his possible rivals. The runner up in both surveys was Senator Bernie Sanders, who received 22 percent in the former poll and 16 percent in the latter. The rest of the pack was far behind in both.
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