The AP is confirming that Joe Biden will in fact be Barack Obama’s running mate.

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is Barack Obama’s pick as vice presidential running mate, The Associated Press has learned.

Biden, 65, is a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate, and one of his party’s leading experts on foreign policy, an area in which polls indicate Obama needs help in his race against Republican rival John McCain.

Fox News says they have independently verified the AP story, and the text messages will start going out early in the morning.