Old Joe Biden launches his campaign. Democrats target President Trump with investigations

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Oh, Joseph R. McBiden, he now has the lead in all the polls and he has gaining ground. We'll talk about that in just one second. First, let's talk about the post office. Nobody really has time to go to the post office. You're busy. Who's got time for all that traffic, parking, lugging all your mail and packages? It's a real hassle, which is why you need stamps.com, one of the most popular time-saving tools for small businesses. Stamps.com eliminates trips to the post office and saves you money with discounts you can't get even at the post office. Stamps.com brings all the amazing services of the U.S. Post Office directly to your computer. Whether you're a small office sending invoices and online seller shipping out products or even a warehouse sending thousands of packages a day, Stamps.com can handle it all with ease. Simply use your computer to print official U.S. postage 24-7 for any letter, any package, any class of mail, anywhere you want to send it. Once your mail is ready, just hand it to your mail carrier or drop it in a mailbox. It is that simple. With Stamps.com, you get five cents off every first class stamp, up to 40% off priority mail. Not to mention, it's a fraction of the cost of those

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for this. And by all his life, I mean since 1862, when Joe Biden first ran for president.

He ran for president in 1988 when I was four years old. He ran for presidents again in 2008,

when I was, I guess, 24 years old. And now he is running again. And this time he is leading the pack.

Why is he leading the pack? Well, obviously because he was Barack Obama's vice president.

That means he has 100% name recognition. Now, it is worthwhile noting that vice presidential candidates,

people who come back from the vice presidency and then run again, it doesn't go great for them

historically. It doesn't go great for them historically. It doesn't go

great for them right off the bat historically. In 2003, Joe Lieberman was the actual Democratic

frontrunner in early polling data from April 2003. Remember, it is super early still. It is still

April, a year before the primaries begin. So we are still almost two years out

from the actual national election. It's pretty rare that somebody holds a wire-to-wire lead

under these circumstances. John Kerry didn't even in 2004. At this point in the race,

Howard Dean was ahead by most national polling. And then, of course, Howard Dean imploded. Joe Lieberman,

as I say, was ahead as of 2003. And then Joe Lieberman started to fade. And then Howard Dean took over

in 2000, late 2003, early 2004. And then he fell apart. Wesley Clark had a lead in that race.

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