Summary
The decision is an indication of how seriously Biden’s team is taking the threat of the long shot bid potentially using his last name’'s lingering Democratic magic to siphon off support from the president. Members of the Kennedy clan were planning to make calls to voters and knock on doors on Biden's behalf. Several notable members of the family were not endorsing, including U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and nonprofit leader Maria Shriver. Biden's next stop was Pittsburgh, where he called for higher tariffs on steel and aluminum from China to protect U.S. industry. But even that event involved some nostalgia, as Biden recalled an endorsement from the steelworkers when he was “a 29-year-old kid’s kid” from Delaware running for U.
