Washington (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden's heading home to Delaware to try and help keep his old Senate seat in Democratic party hands.
A Biden aide confirms to CNN that the vice president will likely appear with the New Castle County Executive Chris Coons, the Democrat's Senate nominee in Delaware, at an event in the state sometime next week.
Coons will face off in the November midterm elections against conservative commentator and marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell, who upset Delaware's longtime statewide Rep. Mike Castle, in Tuesday's GOP primary.
Polls suggested that Castle, a former governor and moderate Republican, would have been favored in the general election battle over Coons, but with O'Donnell as the party's nominee, surveys indicate that Coon is considered to have the advantage.
The winner in November will fill out the remaining four years of Biden's final term. Biden stepped down from the Senate after his election in November 2008 as vice president. Former Biden aide Ted Kaufman was named as an interim replacement. Kaufman is not seeking a full term. After much speculation that he would run for his father's old seat, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden announced in late January that he would instead run for re-election as Delaware attorney general.
Coon's announced his bid nine days later and the vice president immediately praised him. Biden was the main attraction at a fundraiser for Coons in Wilmington in June.
The vice president's office also tells CNN that Biden, who held the seat for nearly four decades, has made many calls to long-time supporters, urging them to help the Coons' campaign.
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Talk about the kss of death. I'll bet the VP gaffemaster forgets the dude's name.
Go O'Donnell.... you can do it. They never thought you had a CHANCE IN h___, BUT YOU SHOWED THEM.... These Dems can't do anything but BASH, BASH, BASH someone that isn't as ELITE and IGNORANT as they are. GO O'DONNELL I WILL FINANCIALLY SUPPORT YOU NOW AND WHEN YOU ARE ELECTED TO THE SENATE. WAY TO GO O'DONNELL, YOU MAKE US PROUD.... THANK GOD THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE O'DONNELL THAT HAVE COMMON SENSE and WANT TO CHANGE HOW DC IS RUN. NO MORE CORRUPTION, NO MORE BEHIND DOOR CORRUPTION. WAY TO GO O'DONNELL.
Help from the "Big Gaffer". Ought to be good sound bites.
carlos September 16th, 2010 11:23 am ET
repugnants love their corrupt candidates............vote for any of them and count your days because your tomorrow is not guaranteed.......
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Exactly! Thats why we republicans re-elected Rangle! Oh wait! My bad! It was Liberals who re-elected a corrupt Rangel! looks like "repugnants" aren't the only ones who love corrupt candidates!
Good! Take Obama, Reid, and Pelosi with him. Let the good people of Delaware see the clowns Coon will run with if they elect him. These are the people who caused the Obama recession, Unemployment at 9.6%, ruined the economy and tripled the deficit. Voters in Delaware won't support that.
Who cares what Biden says? He is a yo-yo..
Thanks, Joe Biden. Democrats MUST WIN. I can't even phathom the thought of Boehner being in charge. He hates Obama.
The idiot O'Donnell is not a "conservative commentator and marketing consultant". She is a perpetual lunatic fringe candidate for office and she has been running non-stop for the last 5 years. She is a liar and a thief and she contributes nothing of any value whatesoever to the public discourse.
maybe not the most politically correct story title....
Hey Biden...
Try to remember – Coons is the democratic nominee for senator for Delaware, not a nocturnal forest critter.
You're welcome... buffoon.
Go Christine !!!
Biden campaigning with Coon should give O'Donnell a few more percentage points. Thanks, Biden the Clown.