The lineups for the second round of Democratic presidential debates were released Thursday night, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont appearing on the first night and former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris, who butted heads in the last debate, facing off on the second night.
WASHINGTON — Maybe the biggest takeaway from the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll – which shows Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren topping the 2020 Dem race — is how there are two different Democratic primary contests taking place right now.
There’s the primary between candidates and Dem voters who want big, bold change.
And there’s the primary between those who simply want to defeat Trump.
Leading in the early polls before he’s even announced his 2020 candidacy, Joe Biden has a problem on his hands.
If he jumps in, he has to compete against a field — as well as norms and practices — that have changed since the last time he ran solo back in 2007-2008.
Here's a look back at the tenure of Barack Obama, from Obamacare, his signature legislative achievement, to the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, to a presidential visit to Cuba, the first in nearly 90 years. See the whole gallery here.
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A 17-year-old Connecticut high student decided last fall that she could only bear the idea of going to her high school prom if she could attend on the arm of “the most delightful man in America."
That man? Joe Biden.
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Vice President Joe Biden tells Savannah Guthrie that though he’s “confident” he could be a good president, “it’s a very different decision whether or not to run.”
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When second-grader Myles Nelson came up with his unique way to make the world safer by using chocolate bullets instead of real ones, he decided he needed to share it with people in a position to do something about it.
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A potential Biden bid for the presidency will come as little surprise to observers of the vice president over the past few years; Biden has often dropped hints of his interest in running as Democrats' nominee in 2016, and has repeatedly refused to rule out running in 2016 when asked.
Should the current VP run in 2016? Will he?
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Joe Biden was sworn in to a second term as the Vice President of the United States on Sunday morning, taking his oath from Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- the first Hispanic in American history to administer an oath of office.
Read the complete story. Barack Obama is scheduled to be sworn in later this morning. For live coverage, visit nbcnews.com or tune to your local NBC affiliate at approximately 11:55am ET.
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Today, the pranksters at the Onion offered up an "Ask Me Anything" meet-up on Reddit with a parody version of America's vice president, a pretender known as "Diamond" Joe Biden. To lure in the crowds, fake Biden offered answers on "my Trans Am, things you can make into a pipe, Barack, or where we can hook up later" among other things. The real veep was less than impressed, and one-upped the faker with the flick of a Twitpic.
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Joe Biden: Delawarean. Vice president. Vocabulary muse.
In new data announced Wednesday by Merriam-Webster, a much-quoted Bidenism from the 2012 campaign set a record for the year in online lookups during a single 24-hour period.
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Vice President Joe Biden made an appearance at a Washington D.C. Costco, during its grand opening on Thursday.
Before getting down to the business of shopping, Biden paused to speak with Costco co-founder and former CEO James Sinegal.
"Thank you so much for being here," Sinegal told him.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama embrace Joe Biden and Jill Biden, respectively, immediately after the presidential race was called at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago.
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Social media commentary was fairly closely divided on who did better in Thursday night's vice presidential debate, according to NBC Politics' computer-assisted analysis of more than half a million Twitter and Facebook posts during and after the debate — and people's opinions either way largely came down to what they thought about Joe Biden's hyperkinetic performance.
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Vice President Joe Biden and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan talk about the Benghazi, Libya consulate attack and Iran sanctions.
