Biden, Clinton To Speak At Major Gay Rights Group’s Event
Vice President Biden, still considering whether to mount a late-breaking run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, will deliver the keynote speech next week for a gathering of the nation's largest gay rights group, just hours after his biggest rival speaks to the group.
The Oct. 3 meeting of the leading activists of the Human Rights Campaign will not quite be a head-to-head confrontation between Biden and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. But the two Democrats will speak before the biggest gay rights activists, inside the District's Walter E. Washington Convention Center, within a few hours of each another. It's the most direct chance leading Democratic activists will have to view the potential challengers to one another since they both ran for the nomination in 2008 against President Obama.
"From his historic announcement in support of marriage equality to his ongoing commitment to achieving full federal equality for LGBT Americans, the Vice President has proven time and again that he’s a stalwart ally to our community, and we’re honored he’ll be joining us to deliver the keynote address at the HRC National Dinner," Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.
The Human Rights Campaign had previously announced Clinton as a major speaker at the event, earlier in the day before about 800 guests. Late this week Biden's prime-time appearance was locked down, and he will speak before more than 3,000 guests.
The vice president's advisers have declined to specify when he will announce his decision to run for the Democratic nomination, but some feel that he must make the call by early next month in order to gather enough resources to finance the effort to ensure Biden gets on the ballot in all the states.
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