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Biden to Visit New Hampshire, State Republican Committee Encourages Him to Challenge Attempt to ‘Coronate’ Hillary Clinton

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Getty 092812 JoeBiden?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1424379340477Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New Hampshire next week, continuing a series of trips to early primary states that began last week in Iowa and continued this week in North Carolina and South Carolina.

According to the White House, Biden will spend his time in the Granite State speaking about the administration’s economic policies at the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership & Public Policy and taking part in a roundtable discussion at Manchester Community College. The latter event will focus on the importance of sending more American teens to college and the relationships between community colleges and employers.

The New Hampshire Republican Party released a statement on the trip on Thursday, calling Biden a “potential presidential candidate.” Biden has said he would consider making a run in 2016, but will not make that decision until sometime this summer.

“The New Hampshire Republican State Committee welcomes all potential presidential candidates — including Vice President Joe Biden — to our state to meet with voters and compete in our First in the Nation primary,” Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn said in a statement.

“Recent comments made by the chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party have made it clear that their party leadership is trying to coronate Hillary Clinton and stop challengers like Vice President Biden from even having the opportunity to debate her,” Horn added.

Horn called that approach an insult to “every potential Democrat presidential contender” and noted that it “undermines the traditions of our primary.”


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