Politics

Joe Biden in Iowa Defending Obama Policies, Fueling 2016 Talk

Wants to stay the course, younger Democrats agree

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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.