Vice President Joe Biden will be one of the headline speakers at next week’s House Democratic retreat, according to Democratic insiders.
President Barack Obama has also been invited to attend, but it is not clear if Obama will do so at this point, the sources said.
Obama and former President Bill Clinton, though, will be at a Senate Democratic retreat this week. That event will be at the Washington Nationals’ stadium in southeast D.C.
Biden has spoken at annual House Democratic event in recent years, and he is popular with rank-and-file lawmakers.
House Democrats need to pick up 17 seats to take back the majority in November, although campaign analysts are already downplaying the possibility of that happening on Election Day. Several high-profile House Democrats, including George Miller and Henry Waxman, have retired in recent weeks. And while those seats will likely stay in Democratic hands, their decision to end long congressional careers is being interpreted by Republicans as a sign Democrats can’t win.
Obama’s soft poll numbers and the botched rollout of Obamacare have also hurt Democratic prospects at this point.
Yet Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have outraised their GOP counterparts so far. And Democrats hope that the upcoming debt-ceiling and immigration reform fights will give them an opportunity to rally their faithful.
Obama, Biden to headline House Dem retreat
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