Joe Biden in Iowa Defending Obama Policies, Fueling 2016 Talk

Wants to stay the course, younger Democrats agree

Iowa Democrats have often looked to Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry for a peek into the future of the party. On Sunday, Vice President Biden made clear he believes its future should be an extension of its present.

Biden, flirting with a third try at the presidency in 2016, delivered a muscular and impassioned defense of the policies and priorities of President Obama's administration and offered a marker by which he said they should be judged.