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Foreign policy experience, as well as all his loyal to the democratic party. hes a great candidate and we believe hes the perfect candidate for 2016. >> when you say movement, is there really a movement to draft joe biden? i guess my question for you is, is this a thing? >> absolutely. a week ago today, we launched draft biden. we had about 2,000 people, collectively, 2,000 people who were involved in our movement. and under a week, weve actually quadrupled. we have an e-mail list of 14,000 to 1...

Hes been vice president during the obama presidency. he has a long resume as a well-respected u.s. senator prior to that. he has no typical disqualifiers, although maybe some atypical ones. he was in iowa last month promoting president obamas economic policies. and when a major politician goes to iowa, stirring 2016 speculation. so why is it that joe biden is not taken seriously? joining me now, will pierce is the executive director of draft biden. mr. pierce, what is draft biden, and why have y...

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And mike emmanuel is live with that. >> reporter: for vice-president joe biden and those who would love to see him run for the president shows biden performing very well in key battleground states. check out the best general election candidates in florida showing biden 45 percent and dr. ben carson at 42 percent. and in ohio, carson leading bide p bide 46- 42 and undecide in there and then going to pennsylvania, biden p has 42 percent support and trailing carson and topping all of the democrats....

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Ultimately makes. my job as chair of the party is to make sure that one, we manage the primary nominating contest effectively. two, that we get the party in the strongest possible position to launch our nominee from philadelphia who will be the 45th president of the united states. >> heres a new draft biden ad done without consultation with the vice president, we are told, airing today. >> my dad never failed to remind us that a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. its about your dignity. it...

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>> i think he did her job. i think she got through the debate. i personally thought she won the debate. i thought bernie was off. he was not doing so well. i thought that the other people shouldnt even be up there, to be honest with you. hello, everyone. the day after the big debate here in las vegas where hillary clinton scienced some doubters and may have ended any draft biden readers, she hopes. the debate shows why democrats think the former secretary of state remains the partys clear fron...

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>> reporter: we have seen more and more smoke signals of important people joining the pack draft biden. this latest round started reporting by ed henry. they were seen the a private lunch last week in d.c. team biden has done nothing to quell the rumors. even though we are all talking about election 2016, its important to keep in mind iowa is 5 months away. bill: you will hear from all the candidates thursday. a thin margin separates chris christie. later this hour governor rick perrys turn, 9:4...