By XIAO LYU<\/p>\n
Vice President Joe Biden made an announcement last week that he will not seek the 2016 nomination of the Democratic Party for president. Although it ended the subject about whether he will step back or not, the speculation of the reason came as follow.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Vice President Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, appeared on CBS “60 Minutes,\u201d telling about the reason he decided not to seek the nomination: the impact of the loss of his son, Beau, and his views on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The vice president said in the interview that he knew he couldn\u2019t win because he thought he and his staff couldn\u2019t put together the campaign that their supporters deserved and contributors deserved. He also explained the reason \u2014 \u201cthe single most important thing in deciding not to run\u201d is the loss of his son, Beau. The loss overturned the schedules.<\/p>\n
Beau Biden supported Joe Biden to run for the president and thought he could win, while Maureen Dowd in The New York Times<\/em> wrote about it and described Beau on his death bed said to his father, \u201dDad, you’ve got to run.\u201d This description was proved false in the interview.<\/p>\n Biden also discussed his comments reported by The New York Times<\/em> last week that he didn\u2019t mean to aim at Hillary Clinton herself and that they are friends.<\/p>\n \u201cGo back and find anybody who says, for the four years we worked together, Hillary and I weren’t friends,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n Moreover, Biden addressed his disappointment with Donald Trump directly and called him a showman. He wanted Trump to reconsider his remarks on immigrants.<\/p>\n CNN, NBC, The New York Times<\/em> and many mainstream media covered this interview and they put particular emphasis on a different aspect of the story. CNN mostly covered \u201cno Hollywood Moment\u201d and the headline from NBC referred to Biden\u2019s comment that he couldn\u2019t win. The New York Times<\/em>, which was mentioned twice in the interview, tells more about his family concerns. However, none of them made a comment about Biden\u2019s disappointment with Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By XIAO LYU Vice President Joe Biden made an announcement last week that he will not seek the 2016 nomination of the Democratic Party for president. Although it ended the subject about whether he will step back or not, the … Continue reading