http://www.dailywire.com/news/uh-oh-joe-biden-is-taking-a-day-off-campaigning-as-new-hampshire-loss-looms
Former Vice President Joe Biden is taking a day off campaigning and, it seems, flying home to Delaware, just days out of the New Hampshire primary, where he's slated to come in second, at best.
The Washington Post's Matt Viser reported Thursday morning that Biden's campaign has no events planned for New Hampshire on Thursday and that a charter plane, presumably carrying Biden, flew from Manchester, NH, back to Biden's home state late last night, indicating that Biden is cooling his jets as a New Hampshire loss looms.
Viser wasn't able to conclusively identify the plane as Biden's, but the same jet is scheduled to return to Manchester later in the day and then depart for Little Rock, Arkansas, where Dr. Jill Biden is doing a campaign event as a surrogate for her husband. The itinerary tracks with the Bidens' tight schedule.
There are only five days until New Hampshire-ites go to the polls and Biden isn't technically that far behind. He's polling between six and eight points off the leader, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), according to polls released Wednesday, and he's a few points ahead of Pete Buttigieg, who is riding a wave of support coming out of a big showing in Iowa. For Biden, a few campaign appearances in New Hampshire could mean the difference between second and third place - and a result he can justify, given that Sanders is wildly popular in New Hampshire and won handily over Hillary Clinton just four years ago there, and one he can't.
But Biden may be doing some soul-searching instead of flesh-pressing Thursday, amid reports that his campaign is in upheaval, with senior staffers in a panic over Biden's fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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