{"id":6875,"date":"2010-01-25T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:22:12","slug":"beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html","title":{"rendered":"Beau Biden will not seek his father&#8217;s Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More fallout from the Massachusetts upset? Maybe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vice President Biden&#8217;s son Beau announced Monday that he will not run for his father&#8217;s old Senate seat, leaving the Republican in the race without a Democratic opponent.<br \/>\nIn a written statement, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said he had given &#8220;serious consideration&#8221; to running for Senate but ultimately decided to run for re-election as attorney general.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nIn Delaware, Biden&#8217;s pass leaves GOP Rep. Mike Castle, a former governor, in the race without Democratic opposition.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably not a good year for dynasties.<br \/>\nBut I think he has a really good reason for <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2010\/01\/bidens-son-beau-opts-out-of-senate-race-\/1\">running for another term as attorney general<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Biden said he wants to continue as attorney general and his work as head of the Child Predator Task force, which helps the children of abuse and their families.<br \/>\nHis office has been busy with the prosecution of Dr. Earl Bradley, a pediatrician charged in December with raping nine female patients aged between three months and 13 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/25\/bidens-son-will-not-run-for-delaware-senate-seat\/\">Here&#8217;s the email he sent to supporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fallout from the Massachusetts upset? Maybe. Vice President Biden&#8217;s son Beau announced Monday that he will not run for his father&#8217;s old Senate seat, leaving the Republican in the race without a Democratic opponent. In a written statement, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said he had given &#8220;serious consideration&#8221; to running for Senate but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beau Biden will not seek his father&#039;s Senate seat - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beau Biden will not seek his father&#039;s Senate seat - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More fallout from the Massachusetts upset? Maybe. Vice President Biden&#8217;s son Beau announced Monday that he will not run for his father&#8217;s old Senate seat, leaving the Republican in the race without a Democratic opponent. In a written statement, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said he had given &#8220;serious consideration&#8221; to running for Senate but&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-25T11:22:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Susan Johnson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Beau Biden will not seek his father's Senate seat - Reformed Chicks Blabbing","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Beau Biden will not seek his father's Senate seat - Reformed Chicks Blabbing","og_description":"More fallout from the Massachusetts upset? Maybe. Vice President Biden&#8217;s son Beau announced Monday that he will not run for his father&#8217;s old Senate seat, leaving the Republican in the race without a Democratic opponent. In a written statement, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said he had given &#8220;serious consideration&#8221; to running for Senate but&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html","og_site_name":"Reformed Chicks Blabbing","article_published_time":"2010-01-25T11:22:12+00:00","author":"Susan Johnson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html","name":"Beau Biden will not seek his father's Senate seat - Reformed Chicks Blabbing","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-01-25T11:22:12+00:00","dateModified":"2010-01-25T11:22:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#\/schema\/person\/b4e41455e911277a4681a65e81271065"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2010\/01\/beau-biden-will-not-seek-his-f.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Beau Biden will not seek his father&#8217;s Senate seat"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/","name":"Reformed Chicks Blabbing","description":"Politics and current events from a Reformed perspective, by Michele McGinty","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#\/schema\/person\/b4e41455e911277a4681a65e81271065","name":"Susan Johnson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/020\/02041661cf28a19369e083191c05c819x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/020\/02041661cf28a19369e083191c05c819x96.jpg","caption":"Susan Johnson"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/author\/sjohnson"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}