And even some of those being wooed acknowledge that it can be hard to discern between people just being nice and those who genuinely want them in the race. Former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who associates say has wondered aloud about whether he should have run and has found it hard to watch Mr. Biden’s missteps, has also been urged to get in. But he still thinks the former vice president , who was once his longtime Senate colleague, is the party’s best nominee. “It’s nice to be rumored about,” he said, before notably refusing to rule out a last-minute entry. But Mr. Patrick suggested an 11th-hour bid was highly unlikely and had a message for increasingly angst-ridden Democrats: “Everybody needs to calm down, it’s early.

Source: New York Times October 22, 2019 09:00 UTC