Telling the 200 people gathered, Biden appeared to be in his classic, convivial form, saying “The president said, ‘Look, Joe, just go be Joe. So he let me loose.”
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The vice president paid a visit to the campaign’s headquarters in downtown Chicago, where he said he “noticed four of my eight top people from my campaign are now in the headquarters so I am ‘all in.”
In a clear rebuke of Ron Suskin’s new book, which reportedly portrays a president indecisive during the early days of his administration amid the economic collapse, Biden said of Obama: “He stepped up. He didn’t hesitate.”
“Folks he literally saved this economy from falling off a cliff,” Biden said.
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