Vice President Joe Biden was in South Florida on September 2-3 to speak at Miami Dade College and the Jewish Community Center in Davie. Biden spoke at the Science Center at MDC's north campus addressing the importance of helping more Americans go to college. The Vice President was last at MDC to deliver the keynote address at the 2014 commencement.
Biden came to South Florida to lend a hand to Senate Democrats and the administration's education agenda as some watched for any hint that he’ll seek the presidency. He may have dropped one such hint at MDC, telling the crowd, “People who aren’t willing to risk failing never succeed.”
But the remark, at least on its surface, was about the courage it takes for students to go back to school after being out for several years.
At the college, he toured a biotechnology lab, where a student asked if he wanted to join in her work. “I'm going to watch,” Biden joked, looking at the press corps. “I can see the press headline: ‘Biden screws up experiment.’”