PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Joe Biden was in Pittsburgh on Labor Day where he jogged through enthusiastic crowds who chanted "Run, Joe, run!" – but the vice president mostly declined to answer questions about his plans for the Democratic presidential race.
"I am gonna run part of the parade...I feel I am home right now," Biden told CNN, as he fended off questions about challenging fellow Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV reported the vice president delivered a speech to kick off the city's Labor Day Parade, returning to Pittsburgh for the first time in six years.
"I am hot. I am mad, I am angry," Biden told the crowd, pointing out how Wall Street and the 1 percent wealthy have enjoyed the profits from rising productivity as the American worker has been "clobbered" in recent years.
"Something is wrong, folks ... the level playing field doesn't exist."
Biden's take on socioeconomic inequality in the country resonated with many in the crowd, and the message that working and middle-class Americans have been left behind, as the economy has favored the rich, provided a preview of a possible Biden platform.
Biden has said his family is a vital part of his final decision, which is likely to be made around Oct. 1.
In the latest poll by NBC/Marist of New Hampshire primary voters, the vice president had support from 16 percent of Democrats -- half the total of Clinton, who also is running behind frontrunner Sanders by nine points.
