Biden heads to Iowa 3 days after Clinton

Vice President Biden will travel to Iowa on Wednesday, just three days after potential presidential primary rival Hillary Clinton appears in the state, The Des Moines Register reports.

{mosads}Biden will deliver remarks in Des Moines at a “Nuns on the Bus” kick-off event, an unidentified White House aide told the Register.

The move comes after Hillary Clinton is making a high-profile return to Iowa to speak at the Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday. Biden could be trying to stay in the picture despite Clinton’s dominance in early polls. 

Biden spoke at the steak fry, a rite of passage for Democratic presidential hopefuls, in 2013. He linked himself to President Obama then, it what could be seen as an unspoken jab at Clinton. “I have great respect for everyone with whom I ran in 2007,” Biden said then. “If you go back and look at those 13 debates, the only two people who never disagreed on any single, solitary subject in those debates were Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”

Biden, however, did not do well the last time around. Biden won just 0.9 percent of the vote in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, before dropping out of the race.